Glo A potential problem - You can't do Setup without internet

[marcl]

Originally Posted by davidfor

I have done it. Any new books sideloaded will be added when the device is disconnected. Books removed will probably still be listed. Trying to open one generally causes the device to hang and has to be powered off. After that, the database is cleaned of those books.

Thanks for the info! So it would be a good reason to backup the database and carry with you on a notebook in holiday or so.

[mutant_matt]

Yep. You can of course backup the DB on the Kobo itself (as long as it hasn't done a full factory reset, it'll still be there). If it's still there, then you don't need SQLite on the computer you connect it to.

Also, if you have a backup of the SQLite DB on a USB stick or memory card, you still shouldn't need a computer with SQLite on it to copy that back onto the device (if the backup on the Kobo itself for some reason has gone or didn't work).

Backup books on a micro-SD card is also key in this kind of "away from home", recovery situation.

I have a backup of my Glo's DB from just after was registered, on the Glo, on my netbook, and on my file server at home (which I can get a copy of, from any internet connected computer). I suspect you might even be able to create a plugin for Calibre to backup the SQLite DB both on the Kobo and copied down to your pc, as part of what it does (if it doesn't already).

I think I already also said before, you could probably get the "registered" SQLite DB into the recovery image, with a little work, so that a full factory reset, would skip the registration step, which would bypass most of this issue of getting going again. I might just try that at some point.

Matt