Is iTunes backed up on backup drive??

My iMac won't boot (that's a whole other post I need to submit!) but I need to retrieve old text messages. I backed up my iPhone weekly and my iMac pretty much daily...Would iTunes have backed up the file I need to retrieve these text messages? And what would the file be called on my backup drive? How to retrieve these messages once I find this folder? Many thanks!

yes if you ran Time Machine Backup.
To retrieve it, run the OS X system from the backup, then recover the Phone from iTunes from the Backup.

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TM is Backing up the Backup Drive

I don't know how it happened, but I just realized the TM is backing up my backup drive instead of my G5 tower drive. When I click on TM in preferences the screen that some up showing the "Change Disk" and "Option" hot buttons. At the top under "Name" it give the name of my backup drive "Sonny's (and shows it's icon) instead of my computer's hard drive name - "Sonny". I don't know how to change it.
Well, of course the backup drive is now full so I get a message that says: "Are you sure you want to back up to the same disk your original data is on?" Under "Options" it only give the name of the backup drive - "Sonny's". Any idea of how I can get my computer's name on the TM screen to show that's "Sonny" is the source? Thanks in advance.

Time Machine preferences is where you found the Change Disk button. You can launch it by going to System Preferences > Time Machine as well as by right or control clicking the Time Machine icon on the dock.
In Time Machine preferences click on the Options button. Drag the Sonny's disk icon that you can see in the finder to the "Do not back up" pane or, alternatively, use the "+" button to navigate through the file hierarchy to add it. Remove Sonny from the "Do not back up" pane by clicking on it in the list to highlight it. Then click on the "-" to remove it from the Do not back up pane. Close the Time Machine preferences window.
Double-click on the Sonny's icon in the finder. In the Backups.backupdb folder there should be two folders. One should be Sonny and one should be Sonny's. Trash the Sonny's folder.
+Any idea of how I can get my computer's name on the TM screen to show that's "Sonny" is the source?+
Time Machine preferences shows the disks it *is not* backing up in the Options pane and shows the disk that Time Machine is using to store its backups in the Change Disk pane. It *does not* show the disk(s) it is backing up.

Backup iTunes Library on Seagate Backup Drive

I'm trying to backup my iTunes music on my Seagate backup drive. When I create a new folder and drag all of my music files into it, dragging that folder to the Seagate drive icon doesn't result in its being copied there.
I have gone to Library and tried to drag the iTunes icon there into the Seagate drive. That is quickly copied there, but it's all text--no music.
What am I doing wrong? How do I make a backup of my iTunes Library with all of its music in my backup drive?

I don't find a /Music/ folder when I open the HD.
Then you ae not looking in the right place.
Go to Macintosh HD\Users\{your username}\.
You should see the following folders...
\Desktop
\Documents
\Dowloads
\Library
\Movies
\Music
\Pictures
\Public
\Sites
But when I open Applications I find an iTunes icon.
That is only the iTunes application. It is not the music files and the library.
Dragging that icon to the external drive caused the contents of my iTunes to copy there. I also found such an icon for iPhoto, which answered my next question.
No it did not. You simply copied the applications to the external. The iTunes library/music files & iPhoto library/photos are not on the external.
If you are looking to backup, you should check out -> SuperDuper! or -> Carbon Copy Cloner
and you can post over in the -> Forum : Using Mac OS X Tiger for advice.

How can I back up my iTunes files onto a backup drive?

I am interested to back up all of my iTunes mp3 and movies onto a Toshiba 2TB drive. How do you copy those files?
On another note, how can you sync iTunes between an iMac desktop computer and an Apple MacBook Pro?
Many thanks.

Aside from using Apple Time Machine to backup your entire computer, you should be able to just copy the files from the iTunes Media folder. To locate it, open iTunes, press COMMAND then "," to open the Preferences screen. Go to the Advanced tab, and verify the the iTunes Media folder location. Copy that folder just like you would any other file.
To sync between computers, you could either use iTunes Match, which costs $25 / year and synchronizes your music through iCloud to any other computer on the same iCloud account (including your iPhone or iPad), or search around for an app (I'm thinking Dropbox or OneDrive) that would take care of that for you. Problem with most of those services is data limitations. I have to believe there are non-cloud based folder syncing apps out there, but none come to mind immediately.
If you wanted to get really fancy, you could change the location of the iTunes Media to something on a shared drive perhaps, but I've heard that non-default iTunes Media folders tend to cause headaches.

How do i get itunes back after new hard drive installed?

I have had a hard drive fail and a new one has been installed. Not I cannot open itunes. I get a message saying " itunes cannot be read because it was created by a newer version of itunes"???
Anyone know how to fix?

Did you reinstalled iTunes ? It looks like you had a newer version of iTunes with the corresponding database, and now your iTunes seem to be an older version. If you are a little patient, you might easily fix this with iTunes 10.5 which should come out very very soon since iOS 5 has been annonced for tomorrow.

I imported my itunes folder from an external drive on a freshly wiped computer. My playlists and ratings did not copy over. how can I fix this?

i imported my itunes library from a backup drive after i reinstalled windows on my machineby copying the itunes folder from the backup to the my music folder on my c drive. when i opened itunes and imported the library the playlists and ratings were missing. Is this normal itunes behavior? hoow can i fix this?

Did your backup include the iTunes Library.itl file that is the core of an iTunes Library, and if so have you restored it either to the default library location for your profile, or to another folder and then redirected iTunes to look to that folder for a library? Normally all you need do is backup the entire iTunes folder from the old profile's Music folder, then restore the iTunes folder into the new profile's Music folder.
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Restoring itunes library from a backup

I copied my iTunes folder into a backup drive. My hard drive died, and now I want to "re-connect" my iTunes with its library. How can I do it? Simply pointing iTunes to the library location doesn't work.
I need to be able to sync my iphone, etc... Help!

When restoring Itunes library from a backup DVD, will it overwrite anything already in the library?
No.
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When I plug in my ipad it automatically tries to back up and download all the contents to the C drive - the PC is too full and I have iTunes on an external hard drive, how do I tell the system to do the backup to the hard drive please?

When I plug in my ipad it automatically tires to back up and download all the contents to the C drive - the PC is too full and I have iTunes on an external hard drive, how do I tell the system to do the backup to the hard drive please?

You can open a command prompt by hitting the start button and typing CMD<Enter> in the search box that opens up.
To move the current backup folder from C: to D: type in this command and press <Enter>
Move "C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Local\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup" "D:\Backup"
Where <User> is your Windows user name.
To make iTunes look for the data in the new location type in this command and press <Enter>
MkLink /J "C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Local\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup" "D:\Backup"
If your external drive has a different letter or you already have a folder called "Backup" then edit "D:\Backup" accordingly in both commands.
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I need to replace my laptop Hard drive. How do I get my iTunes off the old hard drive to an external so I can put it back on the new hard drive?

I need to replace my laptop Hard drive. How do I get my iTunes off the old hard drive to an external so I can put it back on the new hard drive?

Type move itunes library into the google serach bar.
It has always been very basic to always maintain abackup copy of your computer. Do you not have a backup copy?

I am trying to backup my Itunes onto my external hard drive. I am at the step where I on Itunes, click on File - Library - Organize library. I am suppose to check mark both boxes there, It won't allow me to check mark the second box, why? How to fix this.

I am trying to backup my Itunes onto my external hard drive. I am at the step where I on Itunes, click on File ->Library ->Organize library. I am suppose to check mark both boxes there, the first being "Consolidate Files" & the second being "Reorganize files in the folder 'Itunes Media'. I am able to checkmark the first box but It won't allow me to check mark the second box, why? How can i fix this? Please help!

Well you must have made a mistake somewhere. The last instruction of step four reads:
When you've found your iTunes library folder, drag that folder to your external hard drive. This will begin the iTunes backup. The amount of time the backup will take depends on the size of your library. When the transfer is done, your backup is complete and your external hard drive can be disconnected.
Normally dragging content from to a new location on a different drive will result in a copy action which is what you were supposed to do. At a guess you somehow managed to move the iTunes folder. Then when you started iTunes it created a new blank library for you assuming it had just been installed rather that raising a warning.
Close iTunes. Rename the iTunes folder on the internal drive as iTunes (Empty) then copy the iTunes folder from the external back into the User's Music folder. Start iTunes. All should be well.
When you've made sure it all works please read my User Tip and use that method to backup in future. Since you already have a folder with the backup in place you can skip the "Make New" operation in the fourth step and simply choose the external folder.
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How do I back up my itunes to an external hard drive and restore from same if necessary

How do I back up my entire itunes to an external hard drive and restore from same if necessary.
Thanks

This is where iTunes stores backups for different operating systems: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4946
I do not use a Windows machine, have a Windows Vista Dell I rarely startup now. But, from what I remember with Win boxes is, you will have to create on the external hard drive a file system like that one iTunes normally uses, and then in the iTunes preferences or control panel edit the location for the storage to specify the name of the external hard drive, or its letter code, with the name of that file system you created on the exernal drive.
I would also move all of the files from the internal file system to the external since you have now told iTunes that is where they are...before deleting from the internal drive, test iTunes to see that it goes where you want it to go.

I have a copy of my iTunes data and I'm looking to restore it all back into a new version of iTunes reloaded after a hard drive crash. How do I do this?

After having a hard drive crash, I've reloaded Windows 7 and all of my applications on a new hard drive. I have also downloaded and installed a new version of iTunes on my computer. I now want to restore all of my iTunes tracks, videos, movies, books, podcasts and all my playlists into the new version of iTunes from a back up of all of my previous hard drive before it crashed. I have tried importing the data but iTunes drops all kinds of data (artist names, album names, track number, etc.) and have to now manually go through all of my iTunes data (18,000 tracks) to restore the data. The data consists of a combination of purchased tracks (approx. 6,000) and my own personal CDs copied into iTunes. I need help badly here as I'm lost on how to proceed. Thanks.

Hi Toboggan,
If you are looking to restore your iTunes data from a backup, you may find the following article useful (while it is focused on moving between computers, many of the steps should also apply to your situation):
iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527
Regards,
- Brenden

HT201250 can i back up my iTunes on one external hard drive to another external hard drive through time machine?

I have my itunes on an external hard drive which I use on my macbook. Can I back these files up through time machine onto a second external hard drive?

For TM yes, for another backup program running on the mac yes. You can avoid the NTFS issue by installing a NTFS driver in your mac: there are two proven ones: Paragon and NTFS-3G. These drivers make it possible for a mac to read and write NTFS formatted drives.
But it will not help TM (I am not 100% sure about that), but other backup apps it will help.

My hard drive crashed. How do I get the music I purchased from itunes back?

My hard drive crashed. How do I get the music I purchased from Itunes back?

Thanks Roaminggnome,
I just spoke with a friend who like you is into Apple and he just walked me through the Cloud. At least I was able to get those songs back.
Thanks.
Do you know --- the last time I tried to back up my itunes it asked for 106 cd's do you how to direct the backup to the external drive? By the way I found 3 back up cds from 2010 and 1 of the 3 cd's had an error.
Sincerely,
Nanettefrombrooklyn

How can i put my music back on a new drive so that itunes see's everything that was there before

how can i put my music back on a new drive so that itunes see's everything that was there before

Restore the backup of your library from the old drive?
See Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device.
Or HT2519 - Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
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