Moving library to cloud advice

[thegameksk]

I want to keep a backup library on my PC and the main one I will access via my phone/tablet on the cloud. I have my books set up with matadata, covers, and reading lists. I want to keep all of this if its moved. If I want to move my current library to the cloud what is the best way to do this? Also what cloud service should I use? I do have unlimited gdrive and amazon cloud drive but ive heard this wont work with g drive. Thanks.

[DNSB]

I would suggest maintaining your working library on local storage. Select the books you want in the cloud, do a save to disk with the update metadata om saved copies option and then copy the directory that you directed that output to to the cloud.

Since this is not a working library, gdrive should not munge it.

I've attached an image of the save to disk settings I use. You will likely want to make different choices.

[thegameksk]

Originally Posted by DNSB

I would suggest maintaining your working library on local storage. Select the books you want in the cloud, do a save to disk with the update metadata om saved copies option and then copy the directory that you directed that output to to the cloud.

Since this is not a working library, gdrive should not munge it.

I've attached an image of the save to disk settings I use. You will likely want to make different choices.

How exactly would I go about setting that up?

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by thegameksk

How exactly would I go about setting that up?

Open preferences => Save to Disk (under the Import/Export heading).

[phossler]

There's product called RaiDrive (https://www.raidrive.com/) that allows you to assign a drive letter to your Google Drive, and then you can treat it 'normally' like any other mapped or local drive. There's a basic free version and a more robust paid version

I don't know if Calibre could reliably use it for a library, but I've never been that adventurous

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by phossler

There's product called RaiDrive (https://www.raidrive.com/) that allows you to assign a drive letter to your Google Drive, and then you can treat it 'normally' like any other mapped or local drive. There's a basic free version and a more robust paid version

I don't know if Calibre could reliably use it for a library, but I've never been that adventurous

Unfortunately, I don't see that would prevent GDrive from eating the ID numbers (it uses them for versioning). However, I did speculate that virtual hard drives could be used to avoid it.