Time machine for new HOME FOLDER location?

i am on lion on a mac pro and for some reason i am getting a bit clutched here redoing my backup routine after having MOVED MY HOME FOLDER to a NEW DISK (it is now in bay 3). i have just wiped the external "Time Machine" disk and then in TIME MACHINE SETTINGS:
"SELECT DISK" is to select the destination (i.e. the Backup HD that the data goes to) - and then -
do i just make sure that the NEW DISK with the newly located HOME FOLDER is simply not listed in OPTIONS > "Exclude these items from backups"??
also, if i /also/ want to BACKUP the disk that i am booting into (it is in Bay 1) do i just make sure that this disk is not listed either??
thanks for any help as my brain is not working very well with this.
- jon

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