ITunes on external Hardrive- Will Time Machine back it up?

I have all my iTunes music and iPhoto pictures on an external harddrive. I have another external Harddrive that I use for Time machine. I want Time Machine to Back up the external harddrive. When I open Time Machine preferences, the list of "Do not backup" contains my external harddrive and when I try to select it and hit the "-" sign it is grayed out. What gives? How can I use time Machine to back up my music and photos? I cant keep all that info on my internal harddrive. Surely Apple must have thought of this. Help!

Had the same issue,
Had to make sure that all the drives I wanted to back up using Time Machine were in the same format. e.g. Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)
When I did that it gave me the option to back up the drive(s). However, be aware that to format a drive will delete the data currently on it.
I had to move everything off the drive. Reformat. Put the data back on. Then Time Machine accepted the drive for back up.
Hope that helps?
G

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GregT wrote:
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Richard Anderson1 wrote:
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hardikdshah wrote:
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f.bomb wrote:
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