david2673

Hello,

I have my entire iTunes library on an external hard drive. I also have a seperate external hard drive for my Leopard Time Machine. Will this second Time Machine ext. hard drive back up my iTunes library or do I need to manually drag the entire library into the first ext. drive? I am worried that if the iTunes ext drive craps out, will I lose my entire library? Thanks in advance for any insight.

David

chas_m

My understanding was that Time Machine backs up the boot drive, not external drives. I could be wrong about this, check TM help (I'm not using TM for various reasons).

If TM can't/won't do the backup of the iTunes library, products like ChronoSync and Carbon Copy Cloner (with tweaking) will, or you can of course just drag the library onto another drive, thus making a copy every now and again.

If you have an iPod large enough to hold the entire library, you have in effect already made a backup -- the iPod/iPhone! Should you lose the original iTunes library, programs like Senuti (iTunes backwards, get it?) can "reverse the flow" and synch what's on the iPod back onto iTunes, playlists and all!

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david2673

chas_m,

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately my library is almost 200gb's so the iphone and ipod touch just don't cut it. I guess i will just take your advice and drag the library onto the other drive.

Have a good one.