How can I backup up my time capsule itself

OK, this is odd but somebody has to want to do the same thing.
I have an IMac with a 500gb internal hard drive. I also have a time capsule with a 500gb hard drive. I use the time capsule as my wireless hub. I use time machine to backup my internal hard drive to the time capsule.
With all the music, photos and videos I am getting close to filling up my internal hard drive.  This also means I am running out of room on my time capsule hard drive.
I purchased a new 2tb external hard drive. I switched my time machine to put the backup on my new external hard drive.
Right now I am just using the time capsule for wireless and basically have all 500 gb available on the hard drive for it.
I was about to copy some music and photos over to the new external hard drive until I realized that is where the backup now is. If the new external hard drive fails, I'll lose the originals and the backups.
I'd really like to move the music and photos to the 500 gb of the time capsule. Basically I'd have 1 TB for hard drive space (500 gb internal and 500 gb on time capsule).
Then use time machine to backup my internal hard drive and time capsule to the new external hard drive.
However, I can't get time machine to backup the hard drive on time capsule.
Any ideas?

Time Machine, like most backup apps, cannot back up from a network location.
The Chronosync app might be a good alternative.

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