backing up everything except.....

[nlivo]

I haven't got leopard yet but will son be getting it. I was just curious if I could back up everything except my iTunes library??? I have about a 350gb iTunes library and it'll just take up too much of my external HD. thanks.

 

[Mac OS X Ocelot]

You must have every song in existence. And a killer internal HD. Why would you not backup your music? That's the one thing I'd back up.

 

[a1dipship]

could have vids in library

 

[nlivo]

i only have about 2000 songs but an "explicit" amount of videos. so is there a way??

 

[gr8tfly]

You can exclude any drive, file or folder through the Time Machine preference pane. Click "Options...".

 

[Markleshark]

Yep. You can set Time Machine not to backup your iTunes. 🙂

 

[nlivo]

yay. thank you for that. now to go out and buy an external hard drive.

 

[emptyCup]

I have about a 350gb iTunes library and it'll just take up too much of my external HD.

And you won't mind losing this when eventually something goes wrong? Time machine only needs to back this up once. Then it only stores changes. You may not be able to go very far back in time, with such huge disk usage, but all of it should be protected. Better, buy a humongous drive since you have large requirements.