Manual iTunes back up. How to do it?

I'm looking for a manual way to back up my entire Itunes. Other than time machine.
For those of you familiar with iPhoto, if I go to Home, Pictures. I can copy the Library to an external drive and have a back up of all my pics.
If I go to Home, Music... copy the iTunes folder, is this doing the same thing?
If my computer crashed could I put that iTunes folder back in the Music folder and have everything good to go?? (musics, album art, videos, books, etc).
Thanks for any help!!

If I go to Home, Music... copy the iTunes folder, is this doing the same thing?
If my computer crashed could I put that iTunes folder back in the Music folder and have everything good to go?? (musics, album art, videos, books, etc).
Yes, assuming you have kept iTunes' default preferences settings to copy media to a folder in your iTunes folder and to organize your media for you.

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