RE: [Apple iPod] Re: Responses to Otto's questions - Backing up iTunes Library

Answer: Airport Extreme - it's expensive but it allows you to attach
devices via USB and share them among wireless computers. My daughter has
the older model and shares a 500 GB Maxtor between her home Macbook and her
work PC Laptop. The newer model allows Time Machine to use the networked
drive.

You could store your library on the external drive and share it via wireless
networking.

As for backups, you can partition around 100 GB and make it your Time
Machine drive. The will solve all of your backup problems.

Jacques
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From: AppleiPod@yahoogroups.com [mailto:AppleiPod@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Dave
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 5:55 AM
To: AppleiPod@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Apple iPod] Re: Responses to Otto's questions - Backing up iTunes
Library

Otto -

Below are my answers to your questions:

If you make the external the only place for your library, where will you
back it up?

ANSWER: Right now, I'm only thinking that I will use the 500Gig
External Hard-drive as the backup, my existing iTunes will remain on
my iMac hard-drive, I'll just do a periodic backup onto the hard-drive

How are you doing backups for other files now?

ANSWER: To be honest, I don't have a very good system for backing up
my stuff, I tried to back stuff up on iDisk, but I was never
successful in a good backup on iDisk and I've backed up some of my
iTunes onto recordable DVD's but only as a last resort.

Is there room on either Mac to hold all your music? Why is it split
between
the 2?

ANSWER: There is room on my iMac for everything, but the space is
limited on my Macbook. The reason for the split is because for some
reason, I have two iTunes libraries, one for the Macbook and one for
the iMac. I would really like to somehow combine the two or use the
external hard-drive to upload whatever I want should I have to grab
the Macbook and go out of town and leave the iMac behind.

How big is the external? How big are the iMac's and MacBook's drives
and how
much is used?

ANSWER: I haven't purchased the external yet, but the one that I'm
eyeing right now is 500 gig and I will dedicate the whole external to
only the iTunes library. The space in the iMac have about 100 or more
Gig and the Macbook doesn't seem to have very much hard-drive space at
all, can't keep too much on the memory....probably more like 60 to 80 gig.

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