What may be a silly question ...

I've looked and don't see an answer anyplace, so here goes ...
I have my internal hard drive backing up (now with Time Machine) onto a partition on an external hard drive. Fine.
But I have another external hard drive which contains my iTunes library which until now had been backed up with SuperDuper onto a second partition on the backup hard drive. My question: Can I get Time Machine to backup the external hard drive onto the second partition as well?
Thanks for any help anyone can offer.

I agree with Shawn that it will require a large partition that would hold both. TM would track that the files are restored to the two separate partitions. At least, that is my understanding.
Some people have suggested that you can copy a TM drive to another drive. I would think that that would work, but have not tried it. It would be easy to check. Just do the copy and then check to see if the second drive contains the same amount of allocated data as the first. Of course, you would have to add the name of the second drive into TM's list of backup drives once the copy completes (if it works).
HTH

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