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Calibre unable to back up the database.
On my Kobo Glo FW ver. 3.19.5761, when I connect the device to Calibre (ver. 2.67 64bit Win10) I am getting the message : "Failed: Backing up Kobo device database".
Is it a sign of database getting corrupted? Should I backup all my notes and highlights and books immediately to avoid any upcoming disasters? Kindly advise. |
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A failed backup usually means the database is corrupt. The process is to copy the database file and then run a check on it. If there are errors doing the check, then the file is renamed with the word "CORRUPT" in it.
I occasionally see other problems. They usually look like locked file issues, but by the time I can investigate, the problem has gone away. I don't know if it is the database that was locked or something else. After error doing the backup, I recommend running a check on the database. This is part of the utilities plugin. If there are errors, some can be fixed by doing a compress. But, generally, I recommend restoring the last good backup. How well that works depends on how recent that last good backup is. |
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When I try to compress the database with Kobo utilities, I get this error message : Spoiler:
I feel my database has gone wild now, and perhaps building a new database would be better, but I don't know how I can log out from my account on the device and again log in. Could you please help me? Edit : Restoring an old backup of database is also not helping. When I connect to Calibre after restoring old backup, I get the same error message. Last edited by drjd; 09-15-2016 at 08:51 AM. |
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![]() Now since my device is working, can I take a second chance of replacing the database with an earlier back up prepared by Kobo utilities to see if can recover my reading stats? |
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After a few trials, I succeeded in replacing a two months old backup of database on the device, and got my reading stats (partially) back.
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Good to hear.
I'll have to look at the stats again. It's possible that simply extracting certain entries and restoring them later is enough to save the finished book count. I haven't been able to create the entries, but an extract and reload of the database rows might work. Last edited by davidfor; 09-16-2016 at 10:17 PM. Reason: I rarely claim to be able to spell. |
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i have the same error -CorruptError: database disk image is malformed.
i have logged out of Kobo and back. that didn't work. i have added the kobo utilities- how do i run a database check ? |
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