Backing iTunes in the Cloud on Time Capsule

Greetings!
well, I've downloaded iOS 5 on my iPod Touch ( 3rd gen. ) and it's pretty cool. But what I'm really excited about is iTunes Match. That is going to be incredibly cool.
Now, on to my question:
After having had my iTunes library "Matched" will I be able to save a copy of what's in the cloud to my Time Capsule?
Thank you in advance for everyone's input.
Richard

Thank you for your reply.
Not all of the music currently backed up on Time Capsule is of the same quality as the matched songs will be. More specifically my question should have been: Will I be able to download the higher quality "Matched" songs from iCloud on to my mac and then back them up on Time Capsule?
Thanks for everyone's help.
Richard

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Is it running Mavericks?
Mavericks has not been great for TM or TC reliability. It seems to have a lot of bugs particularly in losing the backup location such as you have found.
Apple made some big changes in Mavericks.. not all of them good. One is to use SMB in preference to AFP for networking.. Since TM is a highly Apple type protocol.. and has always worked better on TC than all the other NAS that require SMB, it is suggestive that perhaps this is a basic bug.
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Factory reset Gen 5
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Message was edited by: Pondini

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Following Pondini's instuctions for SparseBundle editing here:
http://pondini.org/TM/A8.html
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