I haven't backed up to disks, but I have backed up to an external hard drive. I have copied my entire iTunes library - music, movies, apps. Just basically copied and pasted the entire folder.
I haven't backed up to disks, but I have backed up to an external hard drive. I have copied my entire iTunes library - music, movies, apps. Just basically copied and pasted the entire folder.
I have it all on an external drive now and want to delete the copies off of my real computer but I'm scared to do that without a second back up.
I just want a copy of the music and not everything else but of course there's no way to do that. Stupid itunes.
We have sooo much stuff we back up multiple times.
We have an external hard drive.
Plus we use an online system called mozy. Mozy.com.
Bertrand is the guy in charge of stuff like this and he is very happy with their service.
what I like is that moby is constantly automatically updating. I see ours at work every day. And it gives time of last update. So u don't have to worry about forgetting to back up.
-- Edited by muffy on Monday 27th of September 2010 12:09:38 AM
If you back up to disks on itunes it says that the files that are copied onto disks aren't actual media files (like you can't go play them on your CD player) but they're just recovery files so that if anything should happen to your itunes, all you have to do is stick them in and hit recovery and it will restore everything. Which is fine, that's what I want. I'm nervous that if I use something like mozy, the files it creates won't be compatable with the itunes recovery feature should I need to do that.
So I have blank DVD's and CD's and started the backup process but every 10 seconds or so it says something like "the file is too big, please insert a DVD" then 10 seconds later it tells me to stick a CD in and so on. I just have no idea if it's actually copying stuff on them or if it's just trying to figure out which format to use or if our movie files are just too big period. The reason it bothers me is because I watched a video on youtube about how to back up and it said that I would get a message like "there are too many files to fit on one disk, please insert another disk, you will need 10 disks to complete the backup." I'm not getting that message.
I backed everything up to a hard drive, and now my Iphone can never find the files. Im seriously frustrated and pissed. Thousands of songs and videos and I cant "find" them.
I backed everything up to a hard drive, and now my Iphone can never find the files. Im seriously frustrated and pissed. Thousands of songs and videos and I cant "find" them.
When my laptop died last December, I had to restore my iTunes library from my external hard drive. I am not exactly sure of all the steps, but you have essentially have to import your library. There are directions somewhere online. I didn't have any problems. An external drive is much easier than disks.
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