Two computers with Calibre, one library filesystem

[sparker]

I have a headless Mac Mini that runs my house, and a MacBook Pro I carry with me. I have a lot of space on the Mac Mini so I'd like to move my library there for primary storage, and occasionally use Calibre from there. I'd also like to open Calibre using the shared filesystem from the mini (that will mount to /Volumes/<myid>/Documents/CalibreLibrary on my Macbook).

As long as I'm sure that I never run Calibre in both places at the same time, will this be OK? If Calibre libraries treat all paths as relative to the library path, I think this will work fine. If it actually stores absolute paths, then it wont.

Thanks!

Steve

[theducks]

Originally Posted by sparker

I have a headless Mac Mini that runs my house, and a MacBook Pro I carry with me. I have a lot of space on the Mac Mini so I'd like to move my library there for primary storage, and occasionally use Calibre from there. I'd also like to open Calibre using the shared filesystem from the mini (that will mount to /Volumes/<myid>/Documents/CalibreLibrary on my Macbook).

As long as I'm sure that I never run Calibre in both places at the same time, will this be OK? If Calibre libraries treat all paths as relative to the library path, I think this will work fine. If it actually stores absolute paths, then it wont.

Thanks!

Steve

Read the FAQ about NAS and non-local disks.
You might get away with it...then one day you don't.
Calibre doe a series of transactions when you add a book. They need to happen in order.
Think about when you do something that affects a bunch of books (like author name change).

[sparker]

Originally Posted by theducks

Read the FAQ about NAS and non-local disks.
You might get away with it...then one day you don't.
Calibre doe a series of transactions when you add a book. They need to happen in order.
Think about when you do something that affects a bunch of books (like author name change).

Thanks theducks! I appreciate the feedback. I thought I'd be OK since it's they are both Macs, and it's not a NAS, if's a mounted filesystem.

I like the way you phrased that second line, so I'm not going to risk it. I'd hate to lose the data due to trying to optimize a workflow.

Time to start working on getting a server up and running on my network instead.

Steve

[theducks]

Originally Posted by sparker

Thanks theducks! I appreciate the feedback. I thought I'd be OK since it's they are both Macs, and it's not a NAS, if's a mounted filesystem.

I like the way you phrased that second line, so I'm not going to risk it. I'd hate to lose the data due to trying to optimize a workflow.

Time to start working on getting a server up and running on my network instead.

Steve

The new Calibre content server might do the trick. It uses your browser for a true client server experience (I have only updated metadata few time this way, never tried adding a book). The problem with running on any networked file system is congestion and delays.