Trying to backup a (network) hard drive connected to TC

Hi,
I have a simple home network with a TC and an external hard drive connected to this. TC is used to backup my mac and laptop. All of my work is stored on the drive connected to TC.
I know that TC won't back this drive up so i purchased Chronosync. However this isn't working...what's happening is its starting to backup up to TC then it eventually comes up with an IO error...its as if the hard drive connected to TC is powering down. Chronosync even made my TC completely dissapear off my network...which is the first time this has happened!
Does anyone know of a way i can baack this drive up?...seems mad that its a pain just to get it to backup.
Thanks in advance.

I can't help with Chronosync, sorry, but you may have a problem mixing Time Machine backups and Chronosync backups on the TC's internal HD, since you can't partition it. See #Q3 in [Using Time Machine with a Time Capsule|http://web.me.com/pondini/TimeMachine/TimeCapsule.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
It may be as simple as creating a disk image on the TC's internal HD (per the blue box there), to contain Chronosync backups, if Chronosync will back up to it.

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