More than one backup drive??

Can I use more than one backup drive to back up my Mini's internal hard drive and six external hard drives?
My latest backup failed because the backup is too large for the backup disk. My back up disk is now a 1.5 TB external drive.
Rather than buying a single very high capacity external hard drive to replace the 1.5 TB drive as my back up disk, I would prefer to add a second drive and be able to distribute the back ups between two back up drives.
Thanks,
John Fermendzin

no, TM can only have one backup drive. you can RAID several drives in one volume or buy a bigger external or a RAID enclosure. another option is to use a different backup solution for part of your data. you can use a different backup drive with that. see this post by kappy for options
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7495315#7495315

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