Backup of flash drive with time machine

My pctures are on a 32 GB USB flash drive formatted in just one partition, ox extended (journaled). I want time machine to back up automatically, but I cannot remove it from Excluded items. Is there a solution? I have Mac ox 10.7.5.

You can use the free version of SuperDuper (cloning software) to make a copy in one step.
Or pay $40 for CarbonCopyClone which has selectable directories, makes "incremental" (changed files copied only) backups, and lets you select any drive that is connected for both the sourse and destination fields.
CCC even can be used to make a bootable clone of your system disk for use when (HDs do fail eventually) your HD does not want to work.

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