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Old 02-01-2026, 06:17 AM   #28
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Originally Posted by dizzy274 View Post
Hi, just to clarify what I'm doing, and by the way I'm 'he' not 'they'. My Calibre library is not networked, it is a single library on Box cloud storage. I am the only user, so it is exactly the same as if it were local storage, again I am the only person accessing it.

When I have finished editing the library, I close Calibre and run MegaSync to sync to a copy of Calibre on Mega, one level of backup. Overnight I have MegaSync on one of my Android tablets set to sync to a local copy of Calibre on my tablet, a second level of backup.

I run Calibre's database integrity checks fairly regularly and the only errors I get are minor and similar to those that I occasionally got when running Calibre on my local hard drive.

I took the Cloud route because I wasn't happy with the level of backup I could have from my PC. Sure I could copy to an external drive or across my network to another of my PCs, but those methods have their own problems.

I think my solution is fairly elegant and works for me. The only slight concern I have is that should some corruption occur it would be extrapolated through the levels of backup, but that would apply to any local backup scenario as well.

Best Regards
Ian.
If you are running the box software while using calibre, Box will try to do a two-way sync. It does not have a backup feature. You would need to use rsync and winfsp in order to mount Box as a drive and then you can use FreeFileSync to do a one-way sync to Box.

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