How-to backup your media from iTunes 5 or 6

Can anyone confirm that iTunes 6 verifies the data on the discs as they burn?

Whoa.. really... I was getting my plans all made for the 30+ dvd backup of generating my own playlists. If this is true and works in Windows with iTunes, I'll be so happy.

narco, seems easier to me to handle everything inside of iTunes, but there's certainly a great opportunity to involve Automator in your workflow :)

I am in the process of backing up my 70+GB of music, and I was just going to drag my entire music folder into Toast, then let if backup everything for me on DVD. Then I'll keep note of a certain date, then backup from that point from then on in. That seems pretty simple to me. Fishes, narco.

It's important to remember that the Purchased list under the Music Store is only shows songs you've bought with that particular instance of iTunes. If you transfer purchased music to another computer or restore from backup, that list will not show what you just transferred. It's not a dynamically updated smart list. So for example, only 20 of my iTunes Muisc Store purchases show up in that list, even though I've got over 200 in my library, because I've re-installed iTunes. A smart playlist is the way to go to find your iTumes Music Store protected AAC files.

Heh, I guess I should increase the amount of text my RSS reader shows before commenting; didn't notice the link to the incremental backup solution. The main point of my comment still holds true, though-using this with a CD-RW is a snappy way to keep it current externally without wasting media. ;)

I love the backup across CD/DVDs for iTunes! I will do that. What about iPhoto or the Home folder in general? Anyone know of a way (preferably free or cheap)? I would back to a HD but my backup HD died.

Excellent find! Via a link in that KB article, there is a way to smart-i-fy incremental backups, too. So if you're like me and have 4 DVDs with the "bulk backup", you can use this method (here's the key) with a CD-RW and regularly refresh this backup of songs acquired since your original bulk backup. Keeps your backups current without wasting discs until you're ready to fill another DVD master backup!

.Mac users can use Backup 3.0 to do incremental backups, too.