Time Machine Backup not only from boot volume

hello
As far as I know, Time Machine, makes a backup from a boot volume to a second volume.
Is their a way to include a second or third volume in this backup. What i want is the following. On the boot volume is a normal OS X, we have a iSCSI-RAID connected with 4 1Tb Harddisk in RAID5. This give us high-speed access over the 1Gb/s Ethernet. We a looking to save this RAID to a external SATA HD using Time Machine, to take this home in case the RAID is lost by fire or theft.
Is this possible with Time Machine?
Who has a solution
Regards
Gérard

time machine will back up all directly attached disks not just the boot one provided they are formatted mac os extended. you have to remove the disks you want to be backed up from the TM exclusion list in TM system preferences. However, TM can only have one backup drive and will back up all the disks to the same disk. if you want different backup disks for different drives you need to use a different backup solution.
see this post for a list of options
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7495315#7495315

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