Is this possible? 2 iTunes library 1 on HDD 1 on a NAS?

At the moment I have all my library video, music, TV shows together and it's becoming too big for my internal iMac HDD.
What I was thinking was having the video and TV shows in a seperate library on my NAS to save storage space. Is this possible? The NAS is a Buffalo Linkstation live.
I could then keep all my music which I use most often on interrnal HDD and video seperate for streaming to my Apple TV.
How can I do this please
cheers

the loc-man wrote:
(hopefully) one last question....
If I do this splitting and use Time Machine for backup what will it backup? Just the iTunes music on the internal HDD and just the references to the movies/TV shows?
time machine will back up any drive connected directly to your Mac (firewire, USB). TM will not backup networked drives. click here for information.
ie I will have to have a manual backup of my movies and TV shows, as these will only be physically on my NAS and no where else?
call me paranoid but i have double and triple backups of my media files, spread across various drives. all drives fail eventually so better be safe ...
bottom line, you need to backup manually - unless you want to move your library back from the NAS to a DAS so that TM can include your media files for backup to a TC or perhaps an e.g. 4 TB Drobo.

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