Confusion with Time Capsule backup

I'm a bit baffled as how to set up Time Capsule as a backup drive. Came from the store with it two days ago (2011 version, latest FW)
First of all the Time Capsule drive appears twice in the list of available drives in Time Machine's panel. I understand that this is a feature in Mountain Lion, so okay.
But, I do not want the backup drive available as file share as I have plenty of disk space available elsewhere. If I turn it off in Airport Utility's disc tab, the drive disappears completely in the Time Machine panel and it simply cannot find any backup drive whatsoever. Untill I enable file sharing again.
Is it supposed to be this way?
Second, I have two Macs connected to Time Capsule. One Mini (on ethernet, ML) and a MacBook Pro (wifi & ML - both 2011). On the Mini, a couple of times today I have been asked to type in the password for Time Capsule.local.
What is is and why is it necessary? And even if I have saved the password to the key chain I still get asked the question again.
And about an hour ago, nor the Mini or the MBP was able to find the backup drive, and I had to remove it and select it again in Time Machine for backup to work.
If things are not as they are supposed to be, I don't think this is a hw issue, so could this be a ML compatibility issue?

Hmm. It seems to have fixed itself... it just took 50 minutes to successfully complete the backup.

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Rheopaipo wrote:
I am sure that this question has been asked one way or another but I can't seem to find the exact answer.
I would like to back up my Mac HD with the Time Capsule AND another hard drive essentially to create two backups. Should one fail, I still have another copy as a precaution. The Time Capsule will be my primary back up because my external hard drive is usually switched off and will only be turned on from time to time to perform "less frequent" backups.
With Time Capsule AND the external hard drive on, will Time Machine just update the backup on the external hard drive without becoming confused with the other copy on Time Capsule? In other words, can Time Machine distinguish between two different Time Machine Backup files and bring them up to date accordingly?
I understand there is an archive function on the Time Capsule, which would also serve the purpose. However, I am wondering if there is another way.
I don't think it's possible to configure Time Machine to back up to two locations without modifying its settings frequently.
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