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Ok, I am planning on making the jump to getting an Airport Extreme and a beefy external hard drive for use as my Time Machine drive. That part I have down and while the equipment is not in my hands, it will be shortly.
I have been using a different external hard drive for my Time Machine backups now. This drive is also my iTunes media drive. My whole goal is to use the drive on the APX as both my Time Machine backup drive and my iTunes backup drive.
My questions are these:
1. Is it possible to migrate my existing Time Machine backups to the new drive and if so, how?
2. Would it be possible with either Applescript or Automator to create a task that would automatically backup my iTunes media folder once a week (or so) to the new external hard drive from my existing one that will be in use?
3. When I move to this new drive, I will be changing the name of my existing one, which will change the path of the iTunes media. I had issues with pathing in the library when moving from Win7 to OSX using an external (no e in OSX). Would it be as simple as changing the "iTunes Media folder location" to the new name? Would it be better to uncheck the two checkboxes in that frame (Keep iTunes media folder organized and Copy files to ...) before changing the name and location?
I have been using a different external hard drive for my Time Machine backups now. This drive is also my iTunes media drive. My whole goal is to use the drive on the APX as both my Time Machine backup drive and my iTunes backup drive.
My questions are these:
1. Is it possible to migrate my existing Time Machine backups to the new drive and if so, how?
2. Would it be possible with either Applescript or Automator to create a task that would automatically backup my iTunes media folder once a week (or so) to the new external hard drive from my existing one that will be in use?
3. When I move to this new drive, I will be changing the name of my existing one, which will change the path of the iTunes media. I had issues with pathing in the library when moving from Win7 to OSX using an external (no e in OSX). Would it be as simple as changing the "iTunes Media folder location" to the new name? Would it be better to uncheck the two checkboxes in that frame (Keep iTunes media folder organized and Copy files to ...) before changing the name and location?