Back-up in Two Separate Locations

I have a Mini-mac server and a Time Capsule for backup in my office. I would like to have a second backup of my files offsite - it is actually required by my insurance company. Is it possible to have the Mini-mac backup to the on-site Time Capsule and to an offsite drive in my home over the internet via my Airport Extreme?

That's theoretically possible, but would be extremely slow, and not automatic (you'd have to tell Time Machine each time you wanted to switch destinations).  The usual way to do it is via the "Back to my Mac" feature of MobileMe/iCloud, although some have managed to do it some other way.
You might be able to use one of the "cloud" backup systems, such as Mozy or Carbonite.  They're quite slow, too, of course.
A better solution might be to use a different app, to a portable external drive you can take offsite.  Just as an example, I have one of the LaCie "Rugged" series, that live up to their name, and get very good reviews.  See #27 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions for some suggestions.

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    From: [email protected]
    To: [email protected]
    Subject: Dynamic link confusing two separate AE compositions in PPro from different projects
        Re: Dynamic link confusing two separate AE compositions in PPro from different projects
        created by Colin Brougham in Premiere Pro CS5 & CS5.5 - View the full discussion
    It's not the comps that are the problem; it's the project file names themselves. You can have all the comps in a project named the same thing, and it'll be fine, but naming projects incrementally is an issue. After Effects includes a versioning function (Save and Increment) that will create a new AE project file with a serial number, e.g. AE Project 01, AE Project 02, etc. This is all well and good if you're just working in After Effects, but Dynamic Link gets confused and will usually start looking at the later project file for comps. That will just create a big mess, as you've found. Changing the names of the project files won't help things relink automatically properly, but it can help you fix things. Make all your DL AE comps offline in your Pr projects, and name your AE projects in a manner that is not serial (give them more random names). Select your offline AE comps, and right-click > Link Media, and point to the new AE project. Things should link up correctly then--but if they don't, you'll just have to remove all the AE comps from your Pr project, reimport the comps from the newly-named AE project, and replace them. It's a pain but it'll probably just keep getting worse if you don't.
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