Use Time Machine to Backup a Share?

Hi all,
Looking for some help on this. I'd like to get Time Machine--if it's possible--to backup not only the information on my hard drive, but the information on a network share.
Here's my setup:
* Both my husband and I have MacBooks.
* Our shared data (i.e., all of our photos, music, etc.) are located on a ReadyNAS Duo connected to our network, in different shares (i.e., "photos", "media", etc.).
* Each of our laptops is configured to backup (using Time Machine) to yet another share on the NAS.
So here's my issue. Even though the NAS has two mirrored drives, items that get deleted from the NAS are deleted permanently (i.e., no recycle bin), so if we accidentally delete something off of it, we're screwed as far as recovering it.
I'd like to get Time Machine to backup the shares so that we don't have to worry so much about accidental deletions.
I'm a relative newbie to the networking thing, and a VERY newbie to Mac, so I might be missing something critical here.
Any help would be appreciated!

TM can't back up network drives of any kind. only directly attached drives can be backed up.
you need a different backup solution. Try CCCloner. it can do it.

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