[Apple iPod] Backing up iTunes Library

Hello Everyone -

This is my very first posting to this group......

I'm trying to figure out a way to successfully backup my entire iTunes
Library on something like a 500Gig external hard-drive. Here are my
questions:

- How and what do I to back up all of my iTunes Library stuff onto an
external hard-drive.

- If I have a massive amount of iTunes Library stuff can I zip it and
put in on my iDisk as a backup? How would I do that? (I do have
stuffit extender)

- How easy is it to pull anything back up off of the external
hard-drive to access my stuff? and would it be advisable to just use
the external hard-drive as the sole source for my library?

One last question:

- I'm thinking that if I backup up all of my iTunes library off of
both my iMac and Macbook that I can somehow be able to have everything
sync up with the same iPod......having the same stuff on both the iMac
and Macbook by accessing the external hard-drive so that I don't have
two different libraries on two different computers.....just a thought.

Thanks in advance,

Dave

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