How to backup an Airport Disk?

Hello,
I have set up an Airport Extreme on my little network to allow the use of an HFS+ formatted external drive as a NAS. That all works fine, permissions and all, but I am having no luck in finding a way to backup the data on the drive.
I know from topics posted here that Time Machine will not do it but I cannot get other backup software to "see" the drive connected via the AE. I have tried Backup, SuperDuper & Carbon Copy Cloner so far.
Any suggestions will be gratefully received.

Thanks for the reply Scott and sorry to hear you are facing the same problem. I kept looking at backup programs and just downloaded the latest version (2.0.1) of SilverKeeper. It appears to be working - it's running for the first time now - but I will have to wait until I can test it to determine whether it is a real solution or not. Also, there are many people who have found SilverKeeper to be buggy and unreliable in the past, though this is not my experience, so not everyone will want to use it I suspect.

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