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If you only need to backup the library and not configuration data, I find it a lot simpler to just use regular tools to handle the library backup. You can still split library files anyway. Personally, here's what I would do in your case (apart from buying another drive which is the simplest solution):
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ILoveJedd, welcome to this thread.
![]() Not sure if you had the chance to read the entire thread for context....SirTel's advice involves more than one library. For that reason, I'm afraid I'm not sure what you mean by "the entire library". Which library? Both the old and new libraries? Quote:
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If I'm understanding you correctly, the advantage behind your plan is that I get to trim my Calibre library's size on my laptop while still knowing what books are in my entire collection. Is this correct? If so, I like this idea. My worry/concern though with this idea is that, later on (whenever I'll reunite with my desktop computer with a larger storage capacity), it will be tedious to "merge" the "formats for the backed up books" back with the "format-less" "metadata entries". Correct me if I'm wrong.... merging the "formats" (the book files) with their corresponding metadata entries means opening each metadata entry up and drag and dropping the PDF or EPUB or CBZ or AZW into the upper-right "format" box. When I imagine having to do this for 6,000 titles, I have to say, "Sorry, but that's a whole lot of time". ![]() Last edited by droopy; 01-22-2021 at 10:10 PM. |
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Iirc, there's an option in Calibre to merge similar/identical entries when copying books between libraries. No need to handle this manually. Alternately, you could always filter the empty entries in the original by the backup tag, delete them, and then do the copy from the backup library. |
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If there are more columns in the library you're copying FROM, you'll get asked if you want to create the same columns in the other library. You can choose to create them or not, as you wish. The books get copied over in either case. |
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When I hear the word "preferences", I think of the "Settings" that every program has. But I think you don't mean that. What do you mean by preferences when it comes to columns? |
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Preferences -> Adding books -> Adding actions -> Auto-merge added books if they already exist -> a. Ignore duplicate incoming formats b. Overwrite existing duplicate formats If you're copying from backup library to original for merging, option a. keeps the copy from original library (if it exists) and option b. keeps the copy from the backup library. With that said, I don't know how metadata gets handled when merging. Tags, etc. are likely fine but long text such as comments might get appended. It might be better to just delete the empty entries from the original library first before copying from the backup library. Last edited by ilovejedd; 01-17-2021 at 02:52 PM. |
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I can't help but think that attempting to zip things is pointless. Maybe a simple tar of the library makes more sense
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Compressibility really depends on the format, doesn't it? Plain text/HTML files tend to compress pretty well. ePubs are technically just renamed zips, and trying to compress an already compressed file just tends to produce overhead. And PDF depends on how well-optimized it is in the first place.
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