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Into Calibre, which strips the DRM thanks to Alf. Calibre itself is backed up to a local disk, a network share, my laptop, and up to One Drive. I usually sync the One Drive every couple of weeks.
And, honestly, I could still download all of them from the original sources. (Mostly Kobo and Amazon.) |
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Location: Quincy, MA
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I have my library on my pc in Sony Reader software, Calibre, and in a file in my documents folder entitled My ebooks. and I also have them backed up to an Iomega hard drive.
I also have my entire library on the following portable devices. Sony PRS-T1, Samsung MP5, Samsung Note 2, and Nexus 7 tablet. |
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I have a workflow to maintain and backup my library. It has changed somewhat over the years, but now it is as follows:
- Download the book from the vendor (ADE, Kindle App...). - Import it into Calibre, where Alf removes DRM. - Save the book to disk to keep an unmodified original. - Do whatever I want to do in Calibre (metadata, fix, convert). This puts an un-DRM-ed original on my hard disk, seperate from Calibre, and a completely fixed, converted, page-counted, etc... book in Calibre. This process will take me about 1-3 minutes for a newly downloaded book. Backup is done to three separate hard disks, automatically, one after another, overnight: - A 3.5 inch desktop hard disk. - A 2.5 inch notebook hard disk, to be put into my vault. The third is also a 2.5 inch hard disk, which is stored off-site, and will be swapped periodically with the one in the vault. I create backups whenever something big changes on my computer, but the minimum is at least once a week. (This backup also contains all of my other data besides books, which is mostly music ripped in FLAC from my own CD-collection, ISO files created from software disks, and game installers downloaded from GOG.com.) Last edited by Katsunami; 05-02-2015 at 10:59 AM. |
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I am intrigued as to why you keep an unDRMEd original on your hard drive separate to Calibre - I wonder if I should be doing this. ![]() |
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That isn't an unmodified original. Save-to-disk (by default) updates metadata in the saved copy. Personally, I don't see why it is needed. Metadata updates are non-lossy, and anyway if you use snapshotted backups you can always revert to the first version.
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Location: Canada
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I don't do anything special now. The books are downloaded to my laptop and the DRMs are stripped as they are loaded into Calibre. I use SugarSync instead of dropbox as it works with any file structure. Sugarysync constantly keeps my home PC library synchronized with Calibre on my laptop and another copy in the cloud is kept sync'ed also. The cloud keeps about 5 versions of deleted or modified files including the metadata file.........Jackie
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Also, I don't use snapshot backups. I want only complete, file-based backups that I can access on any computer, on any operating system, without using any special programs. Last edited by Katsunami; 05-03-2015 at 10:22 AM. |
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What is the difference between a metadata cover update and a metadata title update? I've seen some interesting first-time import author mangling myself, depending how the author metadata was originally specified...
And regarding snapshotting backups -- I agree, which is unsurprising for a linux enthusiast ![]() Although as they are backed by an ext3 filesystem, I am afraid they aren't accessible from any OS. ![]() |
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![]() What I despise is a 'backup' for which you need to have the original backup program installed to read and recover it. That's useless. A good backup should not put the files into a proprietary backup format. |
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By the way, if you are syncing between to computers, I recommend you to take a look at Syncthing. It is kind of awesome. Best tool I have seen yet for this purpose.
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Personally, I would never put any of my data into a cloud service. It has happened too often that such services behaved erratically, like closing 'suspicious accounts,' or have been hacked big time.
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I keep unread books on kobo aura. All books go onto ade and back up one a month to external storage. Tried de drm in calibre and could not be bothered to be honest i like kobo and if device fails i would get another kobo
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My purchased ebooks and magazines are in my computer, on an external, on a flash drive and on my sister's external at her house. Whenever I get a new ebook, I put it into Dropbox and my sister adds it to the backup (and her collection if it is of interest to her). I'm currently working on organizing and backing up all my audios from Audible. One drive will be at her house. I do the same thing with photos.
I do use both Walgreens and Drop box for photo backup as well. It's automatic. I used to use an SD card for the elibrary backup, but when I found out some older SD cards were no longer supported, I became a bit leery of continuing to do that. It was a great idea while it lasted though. The flash drives are fine though. |
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My cloud service is mine. My own VPS. And I keep weekly snapshots.
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