----- Original Message ----- > On Mon, 5 Aug 2013, Šarūnas wrote: > > > On 08/05/2013 11:16 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Šarūnas <saru...@mail.saabnet.com > >> <mailto:saru...@mail.saabnet.com>> wrote: > >> > >> Not much experience with iTunes, but the "correct" way around > >> this might > >> be to back-up/duplicate/export your iTunes stuff, install > >> Windows on a > >> new disk, restore/import iTunes data. ITunes does have some > >> kind of > >> backup option, no? > >> > >> Backup yes, sensible restore not so much. (It's more or less > >> initial > >> import, i.e. the fact that you have the actual library database > >> dumped > >> is irrelevant). > > > > Admitedly, this probably is going off-topic, but what iTunes' user > > is > > supposed to do or to have in order to recover from a hard drive > > failure?.. > > The Apple answer is probably that you should be paying for their > iCloud > service. Personally, I have an image of the disk on my workstation > that > is then being backed up by BackupPC. > > Or, buy a Mac and use the Apple backup solution. > > In my book, iTunes is the best reason to buy Android. >
You could make a separate partition/drive for your iTunes...and then move iTunes stuff to that partition/drive http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1364 The Windows system I used to run iTunes on crashed 18 months ago.... but, I had been rsync'ng my iTunes directory to another computer where was being backed up by BackupPC. The Windows system might not have been such a total loss if I had repartitioned it...it came as a single 1.5TB C: drive. My previous system had been broken up in 5 partitions..... I then restored it to a directory on my new FreeBSD host and shared the directory into VirtualBox and iTunes seems okay with it...lost all my play counts/ratings and the data it mines from that. The lack of USB 2.0 though is kind of a problem though. Though I've been playing around with a usb over ip adapter....but haven't tried putting an ipod on it. I did use the adapter to root an android tablet recently. Pretty much going to try to avoid having to have a physical Windows box. Can't leave the VM running 24/7 yet....but once I get around to sifting through the image of the corrupt drive of my former physical Windows box....that should solve the problem of the VM filling up my disk. Though I compacted the VDI this morning, so that should help.... There are also ways to back up Windows....I've played around with BackupPC of Windows boxes.... and other products (before BackupPC, I used to do tape backup of my Wndows systems :) > -- Matt > It's not what I know that counts. > It's what I can remember in time to use. -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Administrator _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
