Archive of most recent backup (not of all of them!)

I have a one-terabyte Time Capsule, to which I backup four Macs using Time Machine. I want an offsite backup of the current drives, for which I have an empty 512 GB USB drive to plug into the Time Capsule. I only require the current state of the four Macs, not all versions of the files going back in time. If the backups on the Time Capsule are larger than 500 GB or so, then I guess Airport Utility's Archive won't work for this purpose?

Obviously you can't make an archive of backups larger than 500GB if your drive is only 500GB....
The only way I know how to have just 'the current state of the four Macs' is to go into Time machine and delete everything before a certain date, although I personally have not done that on my TC. The simplest way, IMO (and yet most time consuming, ironically) would be to simply view your Time capsule from Finder, and delete all of your backup.sparsebundle(s)... Then run time machine again on each mac, thereby having only the current state as backups on there, allowing you to archive to an airdisk via USB..
I can vouch that deleting the sparsebundles will not cause any problems (I've done it several times w/ no issues, at least). Good luck and let us know if you find an easier way!
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