Back-up only certain folders

i was wondering if its possible to only back up certain folders in my computer to the time capsule. Like my music and video folders only. Whenever i back up using time machine it back-ups my whole computer which is not necessary for me.

I can't figure out any way to do that with Time Machine. Time Machine is setup to backup your whole drive. I imagine you could use another program (I like Carbon Copy Cloner) or maybe even just copy & paste the files you want to backup to the Time Capsule. I haven't tried it yet, but I was planning on trying it tonight since I've been having problems with Time Machine.
If we just format the Time Capsule drive couldn't we just use it as an external hard drive and just copy files to it?
I really don't know that much about how it works, but I plan on experimenting with it soon.

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