onedigitallife.com— This is a tutorial on how to use iTunes to back up your music to CD or DVD, and automatically keep track of new music that has not been previously archived... making future backups almost effortless.
Mar 21, 2006View in Crawl 4
I combine the USB hard drive and dvd approaches. I copy my whole library to a hard drive and leave it at my sister's house for off site storage. Then, every month I do a backup of everything I have added that month. After 4 - 6 months I get the hard drive and copy over the whole library again.Redundancy is goodRedundancy is...
i dug it only because it makes it simple for ppl i know who are very computer illiterate.. easy to follow. I however, do not like this method so much because I organize my music by source... stuff purchased from itunes, stuff i ripped, stuff i've downloaded. Standard backup methods work for me.
An external hard drive is probably the best method, but I'd rather fork out $10 for some blank DVD-ROMs than $100 for another hard drive. Nicely written article.
i have my music and my wife's music stored on a seperate machine, and use itunes to keep it organized and sync with our ipods. the server sees less load than my desktop box, so less worries of disk failure. plus, all music is also on our ipods. works for me :)
timmygunzMar 21, 2006
I've been doing this method for a year and a half now, but this is good read for those who haven't.
woodanMar 21, 2006
Isn't this just paraphrasing what it says on Apple's site?<a class="user" href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302392">http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302392</a>
kotatsuMar 21, 2006
Pretty cool, nice to know. I wish dual layer DVDRs were cheaper though, I'm going to be here all day with single layer discs.
amillionandnineMar 21, 2006
I combine the USB hard drive and dvd approaches. I copy my whole library to a hard drive and leave it at my sister's house for off site storage. Then, every month I do a backup of everything I have added that month. After 4 - 6 months I get the hard drive and copy over the whole library again.Redundancy is goodRedundancy is...
linhMar 21, 2006
i dug it only because it makes it simple for ppl i know who are very computer illiterate.. easy to follow. I however, do not like this method so much because I organize my music by source... stuff purchased from itunes, stuff i ripped, stuff i've downloaded. Standard backup methods work for me.
madrigaliaMar 21, 2006
An external hard drive is probably the best method, but I'd rather fork out $10 for some blank DVD-ROMs than $100 for another hard drive. Nicely written article.
Closed AccountMar 21, 2006
If you don't know how to do this you don't have iTunes or own an iPod.
krewemaynardMar 21, 2006
i have my music and my wife's music stored on a seperate machine, and use itunes to keep it organized and sync with our ipods. the server sees less load than my desktop box, so less worries of disk failure. plus, all music is also on our ipods. works for me :)
Closed AccountMar 21, 2006
If you are a .Mac subscriber the Backup progam can do this automatically on a schedule of your choosing.
jimzipMar 22, 2006
I don't know why I never thought of this.. Clever.Jimzip :D
mydaveAug 6, 2008
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