External Drive Back Up question

Sorry, this is a long one....
First off, my Mac consists of the following:
iMac with 1 TB HD running OS 10.6.8
500 GB External for Music
2 TB with 1 TB partitions, one for time machine and the other for digital photo use
I recently purchased another 2 TB external hard drive to back up my digital photos, which I was going to do manually. I came across some info that leads me to believe that time machine will do this external drive to external drive photo backup for me automatically. Assuming this is the case, I would like to make this new 2 TB drive my time machine drive.
My question is, will time machine back up both my internal and one of my external hard drives to another external hard drive? And if so, what is the process for swapping time maching drives?
Thanks for any information

As ssls6 mentioned yes TM will backup the external HD's. That being said you are playing with fire using the same physical HD to backup and also to store media. The reason being is if/when that drive fails (and it eventually will) you have lost both your photos (which are your memories!!!!) and your backup which could be a disaster. A general rule of thumb is backup HD's should be dedicated and not used for any other use.

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