Backing up itunes library to portable harddrive. Does it work well?
Hi. I think my main harddrive is about to fail so I'm thinking of about backing up my itunes library to a portable harddrive.
I've used the back-up to DVD facility in itunes before and it didn't work very well at all. Loads of tracks had exclamation marks next to them - basically half of my library was missing. I've heard the harddrive back-up facility is better.
Do all your tunes need to be in the itunes folder to work properly? Alot of my tracks are in My documents>My music, but spread across different sub folders. Will this back-up ok like this?
Thanks.
*Fast backup for iTunes library (Windows Only)*
Grab SyncToy 2.0, a free tool from MS. Use it to create a backup copy of your iTunes library & any other media folders onto another hard drive or network share. After making the initial backup copy use SyncToy to periodically synchronise the backup copy with your library and only the changed files will be copied saving lots of time.
If you get all your media inside the *iTunes\iTunes Music\* folder then the iTunes folder should work as a portable library. It can be copied/moved to a different drive or loction and opened there.
Like you I used to have most of my music in the standard Windows *My Music* folder but I eventually got tired of trying to move parts of it to an external drive and relinking it. I recently moved everything onto one external drive, wiped all but the Podcasts (which don't always reimport properly) then rebuilt the library. I use SyncToy to clone this to a second backup drive. To test my backup I can disconnect the main external drive, open the library on the backup and it all works properly.
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