04-17-2010, 02:36 AM
back up just the new files.
Background - I was ripping movies and putting them on a 1TB external drive. It got over half full, so I used SD to copy the files to a 2TB external - copied some 500 files to a "Movies" folder on the root of the 2TB.
Once that copy completed, I opened iTunes; removed the check mark from "copy files and keep itunes folder organized" and added the files to a newly created library . Then, once the files were all added, I went into iTunes prefs and checked the box. What I see now is that iTunes then created a new "Movies" folder within the "iTunes Media" folder and everything I added afterwards went into the iTunes Media/Movies folder. I have to assume that adding the 500 files to iTunes made some small change in each of the files so when I backed it up after adding another 100 files, SD saw them as changed and overwrote all the old files as well as adding the new ones, keeping both "Movie" folders. So that's why it copied everything when I did the incremental BU.
Today I moved the 500 files from the Movies folder on the root into the iTunes Media/Movies folder; made all the changes I wanted in the get info boxes and added another 40 movies I ripped today. Tonight SD is backing everything up from scratch, some 919 files @ 770GB now. I still have a lot of movies to rip, but backups should go quicker from here on out.
On the plus side, I learned to make any "Info" changes before backing up new additions because any change there causes the file to be overwritten in a subsequent backup. The ATV works pretty good on my 55" TV, even with these old movies I recorded from TCM. It is a lot of work to rip all the movies though. My backup is humming along 155GB written since I started this post (I'm a lousy typist).
Background - I was ripping movies and putting them on a 1TB external drive. It got over half full, so I used SD to copy the files to a 2TB external - copied some 500 files to a "Movies" folder on the root of the 2TB.
Once that copy completed, I opened iTunes; removed the check mark from "copy files and keep itunes folder organized" and added the files to a newly created library . Then, once the files were all added, I went into iTunes prefs and checked the box. What I see now is that iTunes then created a new "Movies" folder within the "iTunes Media" folder and everything I added afterwards went into the iTunes Media/Movies folder. I have to assume that adding the 500 files to iTunes made some small change in each of the files so when I backed it up after adding another 100 files, SD saw them as changed and overwrote all the old files as well as adding the new ones, keeping both "Movie" folders. So that's why it copied everything when I did the incremental BU.
Today I moved the 500 files from the Movies folder on the root into the iTunes Media/Movies folder; made all the changes I wanted in the get info boxes and added another 40 movies I ripped today. Tonight SD is backing everything up from scratch, some 919 files @ 770GB now. I still have a lot of movies to rip, but backups should go quicker from here on out.
On the plus side, I learned to make any "Info" changes before backing up new additions because any change there causes the file to be overwritten in a subsequent backup. The ATV works pretty good on my 55" TV, even with these old movies I recorded from TCM. It is a lot of work to rip all the movies though. My backup is humming along 155GB written since I started this post (I'm a lousy typist).
