How can I make a separate external backup?

Hello. Hope I can explain this properly, that is often the hardest part of asking for help!
I have a 500 GB Lacie external HD (my Primary) (formatted Mac OS Extended Journaled) continually backing up via Time Machine.
What I want to do, is make a separate backup on an external 1 TB iOmega HD (my Secondary) and keep it in an area
of safekeeping.
So, my questions then would be the following:
1--Do I just disconnect my present Lacie HD and is there a certain way of doing this?
2--Do I then connect the iOmega secondary HD up to my iMac and is there certain things that need to be done to do this?
3--Can I then connect my Primary Lacie HD back up to the iMac?
I would like to do this periodically, possibly every month to ensure most of my data is in the Secondary iOmega HD.
Any pointers or info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Sure, although I'm not sure why you would want two Time Machine backups?
It's just my take on the subject, but cloning is far better than Time Machine for two main reasons. 1. a Clone is bootable in a pinch and 2. a Clone doesn't require that the external hard drive be running all the time.
You could however disconnect the Lacie and start using the 1T iOmega for Time Machine, then erase and Clone the Lacie with CarbonCloner if your having trouble figuring out SuperDuper.

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Destination means the external backup drive. Source means the internal startup drive.
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Have you run Repair Disk on it?
I now realize that the folder in which the problem file(s) are stored on the backup,.DocumentRevisions-V100, is the folder in which OS X stores its versioning data for all users. I am now trying to work out whether I can safely delete these files from the backup
That does get damaged on occasion. I haven't seen it in quite a while, so it's pretty rare.
You can delete it from the backups, via the TM interface, but you must be able to show invisible items).
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