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Originally Posted by droopy

Sirtel,
I created a new library and moved my CBZ and PDFs into it. It's about 11GB in size.
You advise zipping the new library folder up. How is that better than getting Calibre to "Export library" into the 1GB .data chunks?

Export library will backup the entire library. In my experience, it's also slower than a straight-up zip. I don't know if Calibre uses a proprietary format for archiving either.

If you only need to backup the library and not configuration data, I find it a lot simpler to just use regular tools to handle the library backup. You can still split library files anyway.

Personally, here's what I would do in your case (apart from buying another drive which is the simplest solution):

1. tag the books with the backup library name
2. for each backup set:
   1. create the backup library
   2. copy the books to the backup library
   3. create a catalog
   4. zip/tar the backup library
   5. move the zip and catalog to Google Drive
   6. delete the backup library
   7. delete only the formats for the books you just backed up from the original library but keep the metadata entries
   8. rinse and repeat