NEED HELP: Backing Up iTunes library to an external drive

I like to keep my music backed up on on external hard drive just in case. Been having trouble dragging the library onto the external. Any Suggestions on how to do this??

Yes.
If you are going to use the external for Time Machine and for other stuff, I'd recommend you partition it. Not nexcessary but it'll keep things separated. The TM partition should be 2-3 timnes the size of the data you are backing up.
Here's some good info about TM from Pondini who posts over in the Leopard/Snow Leopard forums
-> http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/FAQ.html

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