Backing up My Itunes Purchases to a Hard disc drive

I was wondering if it is possible to back up the purchased tracks to my USB hard drive, instead of using a DVD or CD. I would like to just back it up in one shot to my 500gb drive and be dobe with it. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Gary

You can drag the entire iTunes folder the external drive. This will back up everything.

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