Partial backup of iTunes to an external HDD?

[Ralf11]

I lack the space on the external drive to put all of the iTunes folder there (for off-site storage).  Is there a way to easily back up everything after a certain date?

 

 

Oddly, EVERY album sub-dir in iTunes has the same date for Date Added - 14 Aug. 2017 (!!)

[GregWormald]

I can't think of a way with all the "date added" being the same (major system updates or a recovery process can cause that).

 

Storage is cheap--buy a bigger hard drive?

 

If you can sort by rating then back up your favourites.

[Ralf11]

I think that was when I experienced a major system downgrade by installing High Sierra - which broke my Finder search

 

They are all my favs, no ratings used. 

 

I have a larger HDD and it is my onsite backup - 2 Tbytes left until it goes to a safe space off site, which is what I plan to do with the other HDD

 

 

I was able to pick folders modified after the the last backup on the older backup HDD and copy them over manually - not much fun tho...