Back Up Failed

I attempted to Back Up my iTunes for "items changed or added since last backup." After completing the process the disk failed. How can I go back and redo the last backup?
Thanks

I can tell you what I do for backup which may or may not help you. On my home pc I have an extra harddrive that every once in a while I'll copy my entire music library there. The reason I copy the whole thing is because I may have updated some tag info and don't want to lose it. I also have a smartlist that keeps track of the new stuff I add. Then when I have a full data dvd I just use some burning software to burn it. Then reset the smartlist. I also then take that dvd and bring it to work and add it to my library there. So I have two working copies home and work. Then two backups, one on data dvds and one on another harddrive.
The backup method in itunes doesn't work the way I would like so I've never used it.

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