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Title: Backing-up iTunes to an external hard drive
Post by: fbloke on November 02, 2009, 10:29:49 PM

Does anyone know how to do this?  I just want to back-up the "purchased" library into my external hard drive which is coming in through the USB port.  Problem is iTunes seems to only want to let you do it via a DVD or CD, which is arse.   :gayflag:

Is there a way round this so that I can go direct to the external drive?

Thanks,

Mike.

PS - have you heard the rumour that Apple have done so well that they're planning to buy-out Gibson?  No, me neither.

Title: Re: Backing-up iTunes to an external hard drive
Post by: MDV on November 02, 2009, 11:20:18 PM

If apple bought gibson, their guitars would be built with DRM that stopped you from playing any copyrighted songs on them.

Title: Re: Backing-up iTunes to an external hard drive
Post by: fbloke on November 02, 2009, 11:22:00 PM

Quote from: MDV on November 02, 2009, 11:20:18 PM

If apple bought gibson, their guitars would be built with DRM that stopped you from playing any copyrighted songs on them.

A good point, very well made. 

Title: Re: Backing-up iTunes to an external hard drive
Post by: blue on November 03, 2009, 12:41:19 AM

they'd also make them so you couldn't use any aftermarket pickups or hardware on them!

Title: Re: Backing-up iTunes to an external hard drive
Post by: shobet on November 03, 2009, 08:25:48 AM

You lot don't half talk some shitee.

Going back to the OP, are you on windows or another operating system? Anyway, google is your friend - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751. So to answer your question, it's as simple as copying and pasting.

I have an rsync script that synchronises the contents of my iTunes directory (or folder if your on windows) to my external hard drive. This is set as a cron job that runs periodically. What I've just said probably doesn't mean much to many on here who aren't in IT.
 

Title: Re: Backing-up iTunes to an external hard drive
Post by: nfe on November 05, 2009, 01:36:31 AM

I just have my itunes folder on one of my external HDs and a backup on another. Job done.

But if you want any music actually on your computer, that's no use, I just don;t have a big enough harddrive on anything to accomodate it all, nor would I want a computer using all it's memory anyway.

Title: Re: Backing-up iTunes to an external hard drive
Post by: Johnny Mac on November 05, 2009, 08:03:13 PM

Copy your my music folder to your external hard drive. Easy.

Title: Re: Backing-up iTunes to an external hard drive
Post by: fbloke on November 07, 2009, 04:43:59 PM

Thanks to everyone for your replies.  I got this done by opening the Purchased folder in iTunes, selecting all and dragging the songs across to the hard drive folder.  I didn't realised that when you selected the songs and dragged you are actually dragging the MP4's across, not just a text file of song titles.  Pretty cool.

Cheers,

Mike.