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Old 04-08-2025, 03:44 AM   #17
lovedj1
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Originally Posted by Sirtel View Post
It's even better to back up to more than one external device, as external drives are known to die (are you sure that your external drive was not the cause of your corrupted back-up?)

Personally I keep the copies of my library and configuration folders on three external drives and in Dropbox. I've used my backups several times without issues.
Thank you both for your suggestions. I don't know if it was my drive that F'd things up, but since it was a full system restore on my PC, I backed up everything else too, like my massive iTunes library. And I haven't had any issues with any of the other documents.

But I will, from now on, use at least 2 separate copies of backup to be save(er).

Again, many thanks to all of you for the support.

PS: Come to think of it, I also have everything automatically backed up to iDrive (cloud backup), so there's that additional copy in case the hard drive breaks or fails. Would that be enough you think?

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