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Mac Leopard, iTunes, apple lossless best backup

Hi,
I'm downloading all of my disks to my dedicated music server, all 450 CDs and it is taking forever. My question involves backups. What is the best way to back up _all_ data.

I want to include all the Apple lossless files created for the tracks, playlists and almost as important as the Apple Lossless files, the album artwork I had to assign to about 30% of my CDs.

My layout is:
Macbook w/ 120 GB, -- where the applications and user account
External Drive 1 - Firewire 500gb drive -- all the lossless files
External Drive 2 - Firewire 500 gb drive -- where the backup should be deposited.

Should I just use disc copy for Drive 1 -->> Drive 2 and then manually lay onto Drive 2 the iTunes library files for the user account that created all the files? If so, what directory are all these files located?

Or should I "trust" Time Machine and when Drive 1 fails in the future figure out how to get "all" the data back from the backup drive?

Thanks.
nycjdc

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shadorne
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I use a software from Prosoft called Databackup.

I program the Mac to wake up in the wee hours of the morning once a week and then schedule the backup just five minutes afterwards.

It works fine and has saved me from a drive failure a couple of times already.

Personally I don't like the way time machine spins up my hard drive all the time. I have had the same frustration with spotlight. I don't like spotlight....a gimmick like Time Machine IMHO.

I am quite used to having the harddrive spin all the time on PC's and even for the whole PC system to get bogged down for no apparent reasons, as something fires up in the background (SVS host is a real CPU hog) ...but this never happened with MAC's...until Leopard.
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