Backing everything up over IP and not WiFi?

Is there someway to use a external hard drive or Apple Time Capsule with Time Machine when I am not at home using my WiFi network? Maybe I am on vacation and I want to backup everything over IP to my home Time Capsule or external drive.
Thanks.

Jimmy Jules wrote:
Actually, they brought in the support for this way of backing up somewhere between 10.5 and 10.6.
No, they didn't. It was tested during the Leopard beta, but has never been supported since the initial release.
I've been doing this since 10.5 and i needed to do the terminal modification, and it's been working absolutely perfectly for me ever since.
As explained in the link provided, it does work sometimes, to a degree, in some cases. But there are many, many threads in the Time Machine and Airport Extreme forums saying it worked for a number of days, weeks, or months, and suddenly the backups are corrupted, often beyond repair. It's happened to me 3 or 4 times in a bit over a year, which seems fairly typical.
See [Disks that can be used with Time Machine|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/15139.html]
[Mac OS X 10.5: Time Machine doesn't back up to AirPort Extreme AirPort Disks|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2038] (last updated 7/15/2009)
[Uses for the USB port of Time Capsule, AirPort Extreme, AirPort Express|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2421?viewlocale=en_US] (1/5/2011)
and if you call AppleCare, they'll try to help a bit, but not before saying it's not supported.

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