HT201250 Can I use TM to back up an external to another external drive?

Hello, I have a WD 2GB external that I have connected via FireWire to my MacMini.  I host a lot of files that are about 1-1.5GB on that drive; for obvious reasons since my MacMini has a 500GB drive.  I manually send these files over the wifi to another WD 2GB external drive that I have connected USB to my Cisco router.  I would like to not have to worry about manually doing this as sometimes I forget and then have to scroll the list of files to make sure that I have everything in there.   I would really like to set up the TM on my MacMini to back up WD #1 to WD #2 without backing up everything else on my computer to WD #2 as I already have that backing up to a TC.  I can't figure out how to do this and having been reading and watching YouTube videos for 3 hours trying to figure this out,  I just can't make it work.  Is this possible and if so, would someone please tell me how to do it?  I would greatly appreciate your help. 

Thank you for the link.  I have read through this and I don't see anything that helps me get this set up.  Some things are similar but not exact.

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