What is the best way to continuosly back up itunes music?

I have an external hard drive and I copied my itunes folder onto it for an initial back up.
I'm continuously adding music and would like to know if there's an easy way to add just the new music I upload every week to the "itunes backup" folder on the external drive or is the only way to back up (to the external drive) all of the music that I'm continuously adding to copy the entire itunes folder to the external drive once in awhile (the initial back up took up most of the external drive space, so it wouldn't fit more than one copy of my itunes folder)?
I'm hoping there's an easy way to do this, as I'd prefer not to use discs.
toshiba   Windows XP Pro  

Use a backup program.

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