Bootable backup to AirPort disk?

Is there any backup app that'll do a bootable backup to an AirPort disk?

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Yes, there is. It has a terrible name, but it's called SuperDuper! and it's by Shirt Pocket (http://shirtpocket.com/). You can download a free trial version that allows you backup your source drive to any other target drive, and the target is bootable, if the source is bootable. Also, you can backup to a sparse disk image, which has some benefits.
The free version allows you backup from one drive to another, but if you pay the $28 you get a license to unlock all the features, which include "smart" backups that allow you to copy files from your source to target that have changed, not ALL files. This can take several hours less, in fact I have been able to perform a complete boot volume backup over Airport in about 30 minutes (once I had done an initial backup).
I have used it to copy my boot volume to another larger drive that I later swapped in my MBP; it worked flawlessly. SuperDuper! does not backup Windows volumes, Mac volumes only so I had to reinstall Boot Camp (could have used Norton Ghost, but only use Windows when absolutely necessary).
One caveat, SD! doesn't work with 10.5.x as of this writing, and the developer claims he didn't get 10.5 until the rest of the world received it. Ahem, that was about a month ago now so... still waiting... But works great in 10.3.9 and 10.4.x! I recommend it highly!
Hope this helps!
Chaz

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