Have Time Capsule at home and another at office. Can I back up to both?

Using Time Capsule to back up files at home-also have one at office. I use my MacBook Pro both at home and office and am wondering how Time Capsule/Time Machine backup will work at two locations? Any thoughts?

It will work fine, but you will need to manually switch the settings around on the Mac each time that you change to a new location....since the Mac can only remember one "path" to a Time Capsule.
When you move the Mac to a new location, do the following:
Open System Preferences (gear icon on the dock)
Open Time Machine
Click Select Disk
Click your Time Capsule to highlight it
Click Use for Backup

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+How can I configure the three devices in such a way that they use the gigabit Ethernet wired connections as their "backbone" and then give wireless access to each floor as if it is one wireless network, and where I can connect other wired gigabit devices via the time capsule and airport extreme Ethernet ports?+
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_On the Time Capsule_
Open AirPort Utility - Click Manual Setup
Click the Wireless tab below the row of icons
Remove the check mark next to "Allow this network to be extended" (This is only checked if you are extending your network using wireless only and you will be using ethernet to connect your devices, not wireless).
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Click the Wireless tab below the row of icons
Wireless Mode = Create a wireless network (Not extend as you might think. Extend is only used if the Time Capsule and AirPort Express are connecting using wireless only)
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Wireless Security = Exact same setting as your AirPort Extreme wireless network
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