Include external drive plugged into AE in backup?

I had an external drive hooked into my computer and it was being backed up by Time Machine to another external drive. I have since purchased an Airport Extreme and have moved both these drives to the Airport Extreme, accessing them remotely. One is the Time Machine backup like before. The other houses other files I still need backed up but I cannot find a way to include this (now) remote drive in the time machine backup.
Please help me if you can! Thanks

As well, you cannot continue to add to your old Time Machine backups on the external HDD that is now connected to the AirPort Extreme as the format is different for network attached storage devices (HDD on TC) vs. local devices (HDD connected to your Mac). TM will likely start a brand new backup.

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