04-15-2010, 06:35 PM
Can't answer, mostly because I don't understand what the heck you're describing. Here's what I do, which may not work for your needs.
I have the iTunes Library on an external that's connected to a Mac hooked up to the TV. SuperDuper! runs the backup every so often to another external also connected to the same Mac. That's the extent of my backup: one clone, done every so often. I don't mount the backup drive unless doing a backup.
When I want to use whatever other Mac I might want for ripping, I rip and put the movie into that other Mac's iTunes first and edit metadata there. I have Home Sharing on both Macs' iTunes enabled, and go to the TV's Mac and simply import the movie into iTunes that way. Gigabit Ethernet makes it stupid-fast, but most of the time I'm too lazy for that and just do it over 802.11g WiFi, which only takes a few minutes.
An alternative to that is to use file sharing and dump the file into the TV Mac's "Add to iTunes" folder, but it means you'd have to do the metadata editing on the TV Mac (Screen Sharing helps a bunch; again, I'm too lazy to interface directly with my TV Mac.)
I have the iTunes Library on an external that's connected to a Mac hooked up to the TV. SuperDuper! runs the backup every so often to another external also connected to the same Mac. That's the extent of my backup: one clone, done every so often. I don't mount the backup drive unless doing a backup.
When I want to use whatever other Mac I might want for ripping, I rip and put the movie into that other Mac's iTunes first and edit metadata there. I have Home Sharing on both Macs' iTunes enabled, and go to the TV's Mac and simply import the movie into iTunes that way. Gigabit Ethernet makes it stupid-fast, but most of the time I'm too lazy for that and just do it over 802.11g WiFi, which only takes a few minutes.
An alternative to that is to use file sharing and dump the file into the TV Mac's "Add to iTunes" folder, but it means you'd have to do the metadata editing on the TV Mac (Screen Sharing helps a bunch; again, I'm too lazy to interface directly with my TV Mac.)