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Originally Posted by Quoth
Also because Calibre is using SQLite database etc, you can't safely do anything with its folders/files if it's running.
Minimise to Task Tray or equivalent in Windows/Linux/Mac rather than really closing it is a bad idea.
Tools like rsync can fail to back it up or alternatively update it from a more recent backup made elsewhere if it's running but "hidden".
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True but calibre has a reason for doing this - it is to allow calibre to run as an OPDS server so other apps (possibly on other machines) can get books .
In practice I don't think that backups are much of a problem as calibre does not do much sql updating unless you tell it to do so ie editing meta data or adding a book.
Restores yes you need to shut all Calibre down - but then again this is all manual so you can shut it down - also would sqlite allow an open dn to be replaced?