My friend Tushar gave me a pretty shocking piece of information a couple of days ago. I am an iphone user, and have loaded up the device with lots of music, golf and tennis instructional videos, and several interesting applications. The iphone is now a pretty important part of my life, and I keep it synched with itunes regularly and sleep easy with the knowledge that all is well since I have everything backed up on itunes.
Well Tushar told me that his computer hard drive crashed a few months ago, and as a result he lost the itunes library. Once he recovered his disk, he re-installed itunes, and figured that synching with the iphone would restore the itunes library. Dead wrong! This process erases the entire library from the iphone, since the synch is not a true two-way process!
It is therefore very important for an iphone/ipod user to be able to back up the itunes library and restore it if required. Fortunately there is a way this can be done. with itunes 8.0 and later. You will find it at:
I was able to back up my library to two DVD's, but have not had a chance to do the restore. Given that I am using Apple products, I believe I will be OK.
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