Time machine and mac pro

I've got the 640gb disk and plans to add a 1tb. But what I've understood from time machine use, I can't have more than one disk as target. How do I solve that, or should I look into other methods?

Ok, basically, you're saying you want to use TM to back up the data on both the 640 + 1TB drives... Yes, it will do that. You just tell TM "this is the drive I want to hold the backups". It will then go through all your other drive (unless you put them in the exclude list) and back them up to that designated drive.
The key is that you need to have a 3rd drive that is big enough to hold as much data as the other 2. Set that bigger drive up as the TM backup drive. Time machine will then merrily back up your 640+1TB drives to the 3rd drive (you said maybe a FW 800 one? ). Once it does the full backup, it'll then only do incrementals, storing only the changes since the last one...
If you're thinking that you'd have the 640 back up to the 1TB, and the 1 TB back up to the 640, then no, TM doesn't do that.... It's 1 way only (AFAIK).
While some people have had issues with TM, I haven't... YMMV. If nothing else, it's better than nothing (which is what most people have!)
There are some other options if you're concerned about TM though...

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