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Originally Posted by ljrkrispes
Barely computer literate MAC user. I have several thousand books in Calibre, and I need to make a backup on the cloud of all my books. Caught out with Apple removing Marvin from App Store and don't want to wake up one day and find out my books are lost because something happened to Calibre. So I guess I need to back up my library to a cloud based platform. Should I just buy Dropbox storage, create a folder and upload everything? I know you geniuses have this problem solved already. Thanks for helping. Linda  |
Nothing is happening to calibre. You won't lose your eBooks. They will always be in your library.
Buy an external hard drive. You can backup the entire computer. Using cloud storage as you are suggesting is going to break your library. So if you ever needed to restore it, you will have to either fix it or start over. It's not worth the hassle.
You can also get a USB stick or a USB memory card and use that to backup your calibre settings and libraries. That will work a lot better then any sort of library breaking cloud storage.
Also, by using USB storage or an external hard drive, you can use FreeFileSync so after the first backup, you only have to backup what's changed. And you won't need double the disk space on your computer for the calibre libraries.