How to back up iTunes library from TC disk?

Since I have now moved my 120GB iTunes music and movie library to my TC hard drive, I need a backup solution. Does anyone know a good, easy way of making incremental back-ups of iTunes from the TC drive (or any network drive) to another HD attached to the TC's USB port?
For the last 24 hours I have been copying the library across from the TC HD to the other HD as an initial back-up, but it's a complete pain in the you-know-what, not least of all because the TC drops the network connection when it feels like it, leaving the copying stuck somewhere along the space/time continuum.
So I need an efficient way of doing the initial huge back-up, then I need a way of doing the future incremental back-ups.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!

I'm looking for the same solution, I need to backup my TC which will host my iTunes and iPhoto libraries to multiple computers. If the TC drive fails, I'm not worried about my backups, but more worries about my libraries.
One solution I have thought of is getting a Drobo, or mirrored RAID device and hooking it up to the USB port. Then I would simply use that drive as the library drive. It would back itself up that way. The problem is that now I would have to mount two different disks onto my desktop every time I wanted to connect to my TC, rather than the sleek looking one disk.

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