From d130d813197b280084c94e2c35155b848519c366 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2022 14:33:32 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] ...

---
 src/calibre/db/backup.py | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/db/backup.py b/src/calibre/db/backup.py
index 1de37ec821..d6747e74b0 100644
--- a/src/calibre/db/backup.py
+++ b/src/calibre/db/backup.py
@@ -5,13 +5,17 @@ __license__   = 'GPL v3'
 __copyright__ = '2013, Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net>'
 __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
 
-import weakref, traceback
+import weakref, traceback, sys
 from threading import Thread, Event
 
-from calibre import prints
 from calibre.ebooks.metadata.opf2 import metadata_to_opf
 
 
+def prints(*a, **kw):
+    kw['file'] = sys.stderr
+    return print(*a, **kw)
+
+
 class Abort(Exception):
     pass