Multiple TM backups in a mac pro (if not CCC as TM)?

apologies for the multiple posts today. i am trying to finalize a new setup here and i just realized i may be thinking about this incorrectly.
i have a drive in bay 1 that is my OS drive with data and i have a drive in bay 3 that has my large-ish databases.
can i do a TIME MACHINE backup of the drive in bay 1 to the drive in bay 2 and also do a TIME MACHINE backup of the drive in bay 3 to the drive in bay 4 or do i only get one TM per machine?
if so, is there a /name/ for the kind of clone i would use on the database drive using Carbon Copy Cloner so that there was effectively a Time Machine type of backup on the destination drive? i mean, is there something close that would work or perhaps i run out of space very fast if i use this kind of setup and this is the great benefit of time machine?
i mean, if i had to pick one i would use TM for my boot OS and my data and do an identity clone of the database drive but if something went wrong with the database drive it would be a problem.
so maybe i can bump up the size of my OS drive and just store my databases on this same drive??

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