![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I have a copy on the cloud - previously on Dropbox, but space there is limited and too expensive to me for the next tier. Always good to have a local backup, and it's pretty easy to do. I occasionally make a local copy of my entire library to my computer just in case I screw up with other methods. No idea if it would work with a cloud, since I keep all my stuff in my house. I do this weekly with a usb hard drive using a little utility called Back In Time. And if you change some metadata in your local instance, how would you ever get that into the cloud copy? You are better off to use a utility like rsync to update everything that has happened to that library. Would it be better if I simply copied the Calibre Library folder to a cloud location and then added new files as they come? Does all of my metadata stay intact this way?Ĭan you add the new files using Calibre? If not, when you do this, you will blind-side the metadata.db control file in the library, and if you ever try and open that library in Calibre is will have errors. But if you are really careful to do only a one-way sync when Calibre is not running, some people have been successful for a long time. It is pretty much a case of when it will fail, not if. Putting a Calibre library on a network drive or in a cloud is risky. It is really meant for moving a Calibre installation between computers. The "export all Calibre data" is not only exporting your library, but all your preferences, plugins, and so on. I did attempt to relocate my library to a cloud-synced location, and wound up losing over 100 books because I was drinking alcohol while setting it up and forgot that bi-directional syncing can also delete my local copy when you delete the cloud copy!īut anyway, my question is this: Is there any advantage to exporting the entire library every single time I add a few books? Would it be better if I simply copied the Calibre Library folder to a cloud location and then added new files as they come? Does all of my metadata stay intact this way? The other option is to simply copy my Calibre library folder as-is and uploading to my various cloud locations. My library is now 11GB and it's becoming a pain in the ass to back it up using the "export all Calibre data" from the Library tab, which breaks it up into (11) 1GB files. I mostly use Mantano Reader Pro.Since my Calibre library is located in my home folder on my laptop and I frequently add new books, I like to keep backups on several cloud locations (my Dropbox, my work Onedrive, and my work GDrive). Then the books are all are on my reading devices and I use the resources there to browse and read. So I normally only use calibre to prepare the books. When I save the books to the NAS I also save them into genre/topic subfolders based on tags I assigned in calibre. The Mediapad tablet for epub, cbr/cbz and PDF. The Likebook Plus I only use for epub novels. Then on my reading device (currently Bouye Likebook Plus or Huawei Mediapad 5) I use the Android app FolderSync to sync changes on the NAS to a folder on the reading device. I'm thinking of adding a separate library/folder for manuals and data sheets. I have separate folders and even separate calibre libraries for fiction, comics, non-fiction and periodicals. That way I can sync updates and new additions fast from calibre to the NAS. I connect to the folder as a device from calibre. Then I save a copy to a folder in one of my NAS. I prepare the books in calibre and fix covers, metadata and so on. So how do you serve your e-books to your mobile devices from the laptop, or do you just read them on the laptop? ![]()
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