ITunes Backup to DVD Not Working

Question

I'm in the middle of backing up my music library to DVD, and it keeps crashing on disc 4 of 8. I get this message: "An unknown error occurred. Would you like to retry this disc, or skip to the next disc?" I don't want to skip over 4.7GB of files, so I tried "retry."
After the first one, I thought maybe I had a bad blank disc, but I've retried twice and gotten the same message halfway through the burn. Any suggestions would be much appreciated, as I have spent a lot of time organizing my collection and really want to back it up. Thanks.

Answer 1

Maybe the problem is with the source files rather than the DVD's your're burning to. Have you tried checking the source disk for errors? In Windows Explorer right-click on the drive in question, click Properties, then click Tools. Under Error-checking, click *Check Now*. Under Check disk options, select *Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors*. Click Start. If your music is on the C: drive you'll need to let Windows reboot to perform the scan. A full surface scan is going to take some time however so you might want to leave it running overnight. Hopefully the scan will repair the problem file & you will be able to complete your backup.
If your backup is taking 8 DVD's you'd be much better off investing in a suitably sized external hard drive & backing up to that using SyncToy 2.0, a free tool from MS. You can use SyncToy to create backup copies of your iTunes library & any other important files. After making the initial backup copy use SyncToy to periodically synchronise the backup copy with your library and only the changed files will be copied saving lots of time.
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