Multiple Backups to more than one drive

I tried to find the answer to this here but hopefully someone can help me:
I have 4 external drives and i want TM to backup drive1 to drive2 and drive3 to drive4 - because the largest drive cant backup drive1+2 together.
What is the solution? Only a raid system for TM?
Thanks

TM can only have one destination drive. you can RAID the backup drives but also keep in mind that TM drive should be at least twice as big as the total amount of data you are backing up. that's needed for overhead free space that TM requires and to accommodate incremental backups. if you don't have that don't use TM. use some other backup tool like CCCloner or superduper. they allow multiple destination drives. or you can use TM for one drive and something else for the other. also see this post for more backup options
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7495315#7495315

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I have two MBPs. The older MBP, with 1TB of storage, now contains two other MBP clones, for a total of 3 user machines on 1 MBP). I'd like to back up both my newest MBP, and the older MBP with the 2 clones, to my new 5TB drive (via wi-fi). I want to encrypt these backups, but am unclear whether it is possible. Does TM first encrypt the drive itself, or is each back up separately encrypted? I understand that if I wanted to encrypt an existing Time Matters backup on a drive, the prior data would be erased and reformatted, but here I am working with a new backup drive, on which one encrypted backup has been performed.
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