Library Backup Question/Error

Well, 3 months and 657 CDs later, I just finished moving everything to itunes (YAY). Now I am trying to backup. I started the process and it told me it would take 16 DVDs. So last night I was putting them in and swapping them out every 10 mins or so and here's what happened:
When it got to DVD #6 it locked up...So I shut down itunes and took a look at what was on the DVD. The music files are there but when I try to open it in itunes it says something to the effect of "error with this DVD...cannot read".
So I started backup again, this time with the option of "backup only files since last backup". So it said I needed 10 DVDs...okay great, it was starting at the right place.
However, on DVD 9 the same thing happened....then it happened again at DVD 11.
Any thoughts on what would cause this? Has anyone had success backing up a library this large or larger? Should I just do it outside of itunes via some other method or is the itunes backup process usually pretty good?
I may just start over and make sure I close all other programs because I have no idea why it's not working. Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks!!!

Nowadays people don't back up to CD/DVD. They get an *external hard drive* and copy over their entire iTunes folder, and whatever else they are backing up.
The advantages are (1) this method does not depend on iTunes's horribly unreliable burning capability (2) you can look at the external and see that the stuff you backed up is really there. (If you want to see an unhappy person, it is when they try to restore from CD/DVD and discover that it did not burn correctly in the first place.) (3) it lets you back up your other valuable files besides your music.
Give an external drive serious consideration. As you are seeing, your library is much too large to go the DVD route.

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