Back Up of Entire TC into DVDS

Does anyone know if I can access to my Time Capsule using my TM in MacBook PRO, and ask the TC to back up all information into DVDs.
If this is possible how do I back up things.
Thanks

nicoteje wrote:
Does anyone know if I can access to my Time Capsule using my TM in MacBook PRO, and ask the TC to back up all information into DVDs.
If this is possible how do I back up things.
Thanks
If you own a DVD company, why not? Of course by the time you used split and cat to every make sense out of the 20 or so DVDs, it will be the next decade. Dealing with a sparse bundle is in itself a good challenge.
You would be better off using SuperDuper
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
to "copy Time Machine backups to other drives..."

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