ITunes Backup, Music and Podcasts only

Dear Discussion members,
I would like to back up my iTunes Library. I have a read a few posts first but haven't quite found the answer I'm looking for.
I have a lot of podcasts and music on my internal drive.
I do have an external but don't want to back up there, instead I want to do the backup to DVDs (a bunch of them for sure)
I know there is the iTunes database file and from what I've read it may be worth backing that up but I am not sure how in the future I will merge the current database file with any current version. That's one question.
Aside from that what I want to do is backup my Podcasts. I know I can do this manually but I would like to do it through iTunes…is this possible and recommended over a manual backup?
In terms of songs, can it be done via iTunes as well?
Any and all feedback is welcome. IIf something is unclear please let me know and I will try to clarify as best I can.
Sincerely
Alex

Hi, Thanks for your post.
Problem being that there is a few thousand file
I am thinking that I should just re-import them but this does take a while and it may happen again.
Obviously isnt a known issue as such

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