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In Reply to: How To Back Up 2x500G to 1TB Properly posted by L_To on August 30, 2006 at 21:09:38:
> I am using two 500 GB Lacie hard disks (named Lacie One and Lacie
> Two) for my music server using iTunes. What is the proper way to
> back up these two hard disks onto one TB Lacie hard disk. Is it as
> simple as creating two folders on the 1TB drive called Lacie One
> and Lacie Two and back up the two 500 GB disks into the respective
> folders?Yes. Copying would be the simplest, albeit slowest way to backup the two drives. A file syncing utility such as Robocopy would be much better, as it could just copy whatever is either new or has changed, and delete whatever has been deleted. Or you could use backup software such as NTBackup that comes with Windows XP. For a music library, though, there's probably not much reason to do 'real' backups like that. If your library is encoded in a compressed format like Flac, one thing you should _not_ worry about is compressing the backup - it likely won't compress much more than it already has been.
> Obviously I want to be able to restore back into iTunes
> easily should one of the drives fail.I'm not familiar with iTunes, but maybe there's a way to backup the data and settings. You mostly need to worry about protecting the music files themselves, since they undoubtedly represent many hours of ripping CDs.
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