Backup: Restoring Purchased Music to another Mac

How can I use the "pre-defined" Backup Plan "Purchased Music and Videos" to do the following:
1) Backup to CD/DVDs
2) Restore to another Mac in a separate folder so that items can later be dragged into the destination Mac's iTunes Library
I have tried the obvious already, and it appeared that there was no song files in the restored folder. I don't quite understand how to do what I need.
Beavis2084

You can't backup to an externa hard disk in iTunes, but there is nothing to stop you doing it in Windpws Explorer.
Assuming you have a default installation i.e music files in the iTunes Music folder, just close iTunes and copy the iTunes folder to the external disk.
It more convenient to use backsoftware which can backup changes, so after the intial backup, further backs are fast.
There is an article on backup here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1522195&#1522195

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