TM not backing up other drives in MacPro

I have a MacPro, Leopard, a 2TB external drive, and 4 drives inside the MacPro - the main one and 3 others. I thought I would check into the backing up of all 4 drives and when I went in to see, found that there was nothing -0- regarding the other drives -- I thought TM was supposed, particularly where the other drives are on the same machine, to backup all the drives. Any ideas what to do?

Did you check your exclusion list? I have my drives in bay 2 & 3 in there. For the sake of testing I removed one from the exclusion list and had Time Machine back up. It added the drive to the backup (well, it failed, since my external HD is too small :))

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Hi,
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Both the Backup Drive and the Captured Memories drives are the same, they're both Seagate Free Agent Pro drives, 1TB each.
The Free Agent Pro drives both have a sleep timer that I cannot adjust, does that have anything to do with why Time Machine won't backup the Captured Memories drive? If that is the case, what other software can I use to backup the Captured Memories external drive? I want it to sync to the Backup Drive because I am constantly saving and moving files around on the Captured Memories drive.
I was using a Memeo backup software that came with the Free Agent Pro drives but the problem I was having is it would make copies of files rather than move them. For example, I have a folder on the Captured Memories drive that is called, In Progress and one that is called In Proofing. So once a project is complete, I move the file to the In Proofing folder. The Memeo software would copy the file to the In Proofing folder rather than move it. So I'd end up with 2 copies of the file, one in the In Progress folder and one in the In Proofing folder.
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I am having a similar problem. I initially set it up 3 days ago and had it back up just the iMac to Time Capsule (about 120 GB) which it did no problem (I initially had my LaCie drive excluded). I then un-excluded my other drive, where all my photos and music reside (about 130 GB). Since then, it keeps trying to back up about 102 GB each time. Looking at the list of backups it does not appear that it has ever successfully backed up the LaCie. I am not aware of any error messages, but I have not been home much. I normally shut down the computer at night but I have been leaving it on trying to let Time Machine do its thing. All I can say is that every time I am at the computer TM is running and it always looks like it is in the middle of backing up 102 GB (usually seems to be near the beginning, never seem to see it more than halfway done). Looking at the TM panel it says the latest backup was 2 days ago. I'd appreciate any advice!

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Recently set up TM using a WD 1TB Firewire 800 Drive. All works fine but...
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a
1 TB,
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Buffalo
b
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1
1
1
2
1
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editing videos, one
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a
1 TB
Thunderbolt
b
2 TB/FW
[LaCie]
c
2 TB/ USB
[Seagate]
d
3 TB/USB
[Seagate]
e
2 TB/USB
[Seagate]
USAGE:
scratch disk
[planning to have
only one active
project at a time]
camera footage
FCPX events, projects
and completed movies
Same as the LaCie,
as it's backup
To be used as TM
backup for my Mac's
internal and also to
the scratch disk.
Planning to have it in
2 partitions: to have
a 'secondary' copy of
my Mac's IHD on one
partition and to have
personal 'net retrievable'
data on the other partition.
'MY
OBSERVATIONS'
my projects are usually
less than 10 minutes
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work would be fast and in
case of drive failure, I
would be losing only
one project.
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primarily into this drive and
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fast.
Am manually copying
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by the company's
agent as a replacement
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performance of the
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to have a copy of my
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partition that I will not be
greatly affected should the
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Message was edited by: somanna

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Conor66 wrote:
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