ITunes library is on external hd. how do i back it up using Time Machine?

I'm saving my iTunes library to an external library since I'll go way over the 500GB of my Mac mini. How do I back up the iTunes library using Time Machine? Can I back it up on the external same hard drive? AppleCare had me partition the drive into 2 partitions. 1 for Time machine and 1 for iTunes library. Can I back up the library to the other partition?
Thanks

1. Open the Time Machine pane of System Preferences and set it not to exclude that partition.
2. Yes, but you shouldn't. If the drive fails, it'll wipe both out.
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