Clone a Time Capsule

Hey guys.
I recently bought an iMac to go along with my old Macmini. I decided to put my extensive iTunes library on the capsule and have the two Macs sharing the media (essentially used as a media drive).
Because of this I've found myself with an external disk to spare which I have plugged into the Time Capsule as a network drive.
From what research I've done, if I now back up my two Macs using Time machine, my media on the Time Capsule won't be backed up. Since this is really what I want to be backed up, is there a way I can routinely clone the Time Capsule content onto the plugged in network drive?

Owenvii wrote:
Since this is really what I want to be backed up?
best way would be to move your iTunes library to the external, plug that into your computer, and have TM include the drive for backups.
however, maybe ChronoSync can do what you want.
good luck !
JGG

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    Use Time Capsule to backup everything else, excluding the Entourage and Parallels files. With TC trying to backup every hour, this just won't work with files this large. I know that it is not possible to do incremental backups with Entourage because of the file structure (monolithic, I believe it is called) and assume from your description that Parallels is the same type of file structure. I exclude the Entourage database from my TC backups and instead backup to a small separate USB drive daily. All seems to be well.
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    http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html
    See Q3
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    speachmusic wrote:
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