How to back-up my iPad to external drive?

I want to back-up my iPad to the 1Tb external drive on my MacBook Pro. However in iTunes I can only choose between 'This computer' and iCloud. I cannot find a way to back-up to the external drive. Anybody?

Your best option is still iTune and/or iCloud.

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It should not be a problem. How is the drive formatted?
Select the Drive in Finder, then Get Info (cmd-i).
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before so basically I do not know how to do it. I been backing up to discs but I want to do it with the external drive now. I have itunes 7.7.1.11, and a second generation 8GB ipod nano.

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If you move them yourself, iTunes will lose them.
You need to Consolidate library in iTunes to move it.
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I recently moved my iTunes Library from a firewire Lacie external hard drive to a Western Digital USd hard that is now having problems (It keeps unmounting itself and I don't think that's good). It was not easy to move my iTunes folder and make it work again. I do not want to send 3 weeks plus using my spare time relinking songs or recreating playlists. I had to re-link 6,000 songs one by one. I iTunes will make a backup on CDs or DVDs why not an external device? Why would I want to copy 80 plus gigs to CDs?
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I want to back up every thing, but I can't find a way to do it. That is the problem. Apple recommends if you are backing up to an external drive to copy folder the music folder to the drive via drag and drop. But I know when you do this that if you try use the backup you will only have the songs as if they were first added to iTunes.
I was able this time to move my music folder successfully (Last time the problem wasn't immediately apparent as it didn't affect my iPod, so I hope I'm not jinxing it). For now, my music is back on the Lacie drive, but it's still not backed up. If the LaCie drive were to fail I'd be faced with reimporting all my music and re-purchasing the TV shows and movies. (I almost always make a CD of new iTunes Purchases. which is why I have no desire to have a second huge stack of CDs.) My computer will not burn DVDs.
I want to backup everything so that it could be restored and be like it is now, but I don't see a way to do it. And I am not backing up all 80 plus gigs to CDs. My computer would crash and burn.

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Open up Time Machine and go back to a date using the timeline on the right side of the window when you know the drive was working and was backing up as part of Time Machine backups.
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Open iTunes.
From the iTunes menu, choose Preferences.
Click the Advanced button in the Preferences window.
Click the Change button in the iTunes Media folder location pane.
In the Change Media Folder Location window that appears, navigate to the location where you would like your new iTunes Media folder to be created.
Note: By default, your iTunes Media folder is a folder named "iTunes Media" in ~/Music/iTunes/ where the tilde "~" represents your home directory.
Click the New Folder button in the Change Media Folder Location window.
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Click Create.
Click Choose in the Change Media Folder Location window.
Click OK in the Advanced window.
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In the Organize Library (or Consolidate Library) window, select Consolidate files.
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After the folder has been copied, locate your original iTunes Media folder, and drag it to the Trash. Important: Don't remove the iTunes Library files that may be in the same location as the iTunes Media folder. For more information about the iTunes Library files, see this article.
Quit iTunes and then open iTunes once more.
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If you can open and close iTunes without encountering the above alert, empty the Trash.
iTunes for Mac: Moving your iTunes Media folder
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1449
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i want to make sure i have a good idea of what to do before i start fooling around. my windows partition is fat 32 while my bootcamp is ntsf

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