Time Machine + 2 external HDs

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I have Time Machine running on an external USB HD. If I buy another external HD and plug that into my firewire port will Time Machine do incremental backups of the firewire HD in addition to my primary system disk?
 
So it won't back up the Firewire hard drive. An alternative solution would be to use a product like SuperDuper or CarbonCopyCloner which can be set up to do incremental backups of any specified volumes (for two volumes – your Boot volume and your Firewire volume – you would set up two scripts). Note that SuperDuper can clone your Boot Volume to the same volume as your Time Machine backup – and will give you a BOOTABLE backup, which time Machine does not provide. I would recommend partitioning the USB drive as your backup (as it's the slower of the two drives) – one for Time Machine/SuperDuper backups, and one to backup the Firewire drive.
 
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