Calibre Sideloaded and Notes from Amazon Cloud

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by nynaevelan

hmmm that sounds interesting, any chance you will wanna share?? Is this syncing within Calibre or to your hard drive??

To the hard drive. It's a linux shellscript, though it could still be used on Windows if you install rsync with cygwin:

#!/bin/bash

## Set defaults

backup_folder="$HOME/Kindle Stuff/Kindle Backups/"
backup_excludes=.rsync-backup-exclude
restore_excludes=.rsync-restore-exclude


##### Declare usage

usage()
{
        cat <<- _EOF_
                Usage: kindlesync [OPTIONS]
                Back up contents of Kindle drive as Kindle.rsync        
                Does not include system info or TTS
                Deletes:
                    Personal Letters
                    EndActions
                    .fuse and .goutputstream garbage

                OPTIONS
                        --backup-excludes
                                        optional excludes file for backup
                                        defaults to: '$backup_excludes'
                        --restore-excludes
                                        optional excludes file for restore
                                        defaults to: '$restore_excludes'
                    -f, --folder        chooses backup folder, defaults to:
                                            '$backup_folder'
                    -b, --backup        perform backup only
                    -r, --restore       perform restore only
                    -d, --dry-run       backup, then do restore in test mode
                    -h, --help          show this usage message then exit
_EOF_
}


##### Test for interactive options

## By default, all switches turned off

backup_only=
restore_only=
dry_restore=

while [ "$1" != "" ]; do
        case $1 in
                -h|--help)                      usage
                                                        exit
                                                        ;;
                -f|--folder)            shift
                                                        backup_folder=$1
                                                        ;;
                --backup-excludes)      shift
                                                        backup_excludes=$1
                                                        ;;
                --restore-excludes)     shift
                                                        restore_excludes=$1
                                                        ;;
                -b|--backup)            backup_only=1
                                                        ;;
                -r|--restore)           restore_only=1
                                                        ;;
                -d|--dry-run)           dry_restore=1
                                                        ;;
                *)                                      echo "kindlesync: unrecognized option '$1'"
                                                        echo "Try 'kindlesync --help' for more information."
                                                        exit 1
        esac
        shift
done

##### Declare Functions

do_backup()
{
        rsync -amv --exclude-from=$backup_excludes /media/Kindle/ ./Kindle.rsync
}

do_restore()
{
        rsync -amv --exclude-from=$restore_excludes --delete ./Kindle.rsync/ /media/Kindle
}

do_dry_restore()
{
        rsync -amv --dry-run --exclude-from=$restore_excludes --delete ./Kindle.rsync/ /media/Kindle
}

################################################################################################
#####                  OLD SYNC ONLY DOCUMENTS FOLDER                                ###########
#####                                                                                ###########
##### rsync -amv --exclude-from=.rsync-exclude /media/Kindle/documents/ ./documents  ###########
##### rsync -amv --delete ./documents/ /media/Kindle/documents                       ###########
################################################################################################



#### MAIN

if [ ! -d /media/Kindle/ ]; then
        echo "Your Kindle is not plugged in."
        exit 1
fi

cd "$backup_folder"

if [ "$backup_only" = "1" ]; then
        echo "Backing up to: $(pwd)/Kindle.rsync"
        do_backup
elif [ "$restore_only" = "1" ]; then
        echo "Restoring..."
        do_restore
elif [ "$dry_restore" = "1" ]; then
        echo -e "Backing up to: $(pwd)/Kindle.rsync\n\n"
        do_backup
        echo -e "Simulating restore; this isn't really happening.\n\n"
        do_dry_restore
else
        echo -e "Backing up to: $(pwd)/Kindle.rsync\n\n"
        do_backup
        echo -e "Restoring...\n\n"
        do_restore
fi

the backup-excludes file looks like this:

#DOCUMENTS JUNK#
- Personal\ letter*
- .fuse*
- .goutputstream-*
- EndActions*
- *.partial

#SYSTEM#
+ /system/
+ /system/thumbnails/
+ /system/thumbnails/*
- /system/*

#TTS#
- /tts/

#Sandbox#
- /.active_content_sandbox/

The restore-excludes file looks like this:

- /tts/
- /.active_content_sandbox/
- /documents/*.partial

#SYSTEM#
+ /system/
+ /system/thumbnails/
+ /system/thumbnails/*
- /system/*

[eschwartz]

BTW thank you for reminding me to finally one day get around to making this thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=235537

[nynaevelan]

I am going to look into this, to see if this is something I can use to backup my annotations files. I am sure I will have more questions for you.