Looking for some clarification on backups. Hopefully this is an easy one to answer. Want to make sure i'm getting things right in that guide I'm working on.
The FanFicFare FAQ says this about backups:
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How do I backup FanFicFare settings?
For CLI, back up your personal.ini file as you would any other file. You're already backing up your home directory and fanfiction library, right?
For Calibre plugin, FanFicFare keeps your settings in the Calibre library database--you backup your Calibre libraries, right?
Details of how to backup Calibre libraries are given in Calibre's User Guide - http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq....backup-calibre
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And the Calibre FAQ which is linked to from there says:
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The most important thing to backup is the calibre library folder, that contains all your books and metadata. This is the folder you chose for your calibre library when you ran calibre for the first time. You can get the path to the library folder by clicking the calibre icon on the main toolbar. You must backup this complete folder with all its files and sub-folders.
You can switch calibre to using a backed up library folder by simply clicking the calibre icon on the toolbar and choosing your backup library folder. A backed up library folder backs up your custom columns and saved searches as well as all your books and metadata.
If you want to backup the calibre configuration/plugins, you have to backup the config folder. You can find this config folder via Preferences → Miscellaneous. Note that restoring configuration folders is not officially supported, but should work in most cases. Just copy the contents of the backup folder into the current configuration folder to restore.
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Are all of the FanFicFare settings in the actual Library folder? Or if you want to make sure you keep all your settings and tweaks and whatnot, do you need to also regularly copy the configuration folders? (It sounds like the latter in the Calibre FAQ, but the former in the FanFicFare FAQ.)
I do backup personal.ini textfiles regularly as a separate thing, especially before and after I make major changes to it.
I actually have been doing Calibre exports of my library thinking that is the best way to make sure I have a truly complete backup that covers everything, but I was wondering if that's overkill. Though it's easier than manually copying both library folders and config folders. (I've just been making exports into dated folders every so often.) (So currently my guide is telling people that exports are the best way to get a complete backup. Is that accurate? Am I misleading folks?)
Thanks! (Hopefully this hasn't been covered recently so I feel foolish again. I really do usually search all documentation and this forum before asking questions, but for this one I only got through documentation, not the forum as I'm getting burnt out from working on the Calibre/FanFicFare guide so much.)