Have 2 externals; one for time machine. can time machine back up the other?

I have 2 externals, one for media and large files, and the other exclusively for time machine. I went into time machine options and removed the other external from the omit list. Time machine wouldn't back up the drive then; so i guessed maybe it was too big, so i went through and omitted all but one small file, less than a GB. Is it possible to use the time machine system to back up files on another external?

From just looking in the Time Machine preferences, I think the problem is a little different than what your thinking. It looks as if you can indeed back up one external to another using TM.
The issue seems to be that you cannot have TM backing up more than one hard drive to one other hard drive using only one computer. A.K.A. If you have TM backing up your internal hard disk, then, as far as I can see, you can't select your other external for back up with TM. And, if you select your other external, then your internal won't be backing up.
One possible solution is using a free back up utility like Carbon Copy Cloner (http://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/13260). You could set your non-TM hard drive to be backed up every hour (the same interval as TM does) to the TM hard drive, and keep your internal backing up the same way it is now. You would end up with TM constantly keeping your main files on the computer up-to-date, and your other external would have the same "safety net." It does appear that CCC it may replace every file in each back up with the new one regardless of changes to the file (same as in every version to date), though I haven't used this updated version of CCC very much yet. But, if you don't need things updated every hour, you can set it to run a backup script on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis as well.
NOTE: One thing to keep in mind is that you should Uncheck the box that says, "Erase the target volume" in the main window of CCC so that you don't loose everything that's already on there when CCC does the back up.
-Joel

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