How do I backup my time capsule to another time capsule over the internet

I have a Time Capsule that I use for backups locally within my own home. My parents have one as well that they use for their backups. Ideally it would be great to have my backups offsite -- if your house burns down it doesn't help that your backups were in the house...
So is there a way to copy (automatically) the image from one TC to another and vice versa over the internet?

No, there isn't, and even if there was, it would take forever, or possibly longer.
Any backup done over the internet will be quite slow; upload speeds are generally much, much slower than download speeds. Some of the companies that do internet backups, such as Mozy, Carbonite, etc., actually ship you an external HD for the first backup. You ship that back, they load it onto their servers, then do "incremental" backups of what's changed over the net.
In addition, it's not a good idea to back up a backup; any problem with the original will be copied to, and perhaps magnified, on the copy.
A much better approach is to get a portable external HD; do backups to it, then take it to a secure off-site location. See #27 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions for some suggestions, especially the pink box there.
It still might be a good idea to have some limited data backed-up over the internet, such as relatively-small things and/or things that rarely change.

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Hi guys,
I've been fighting for such a long time with my Time Capsule. I have no idea how to gain access "over-the-internet" on a PC (Windows 7) which is running on another network. My Time Capsule is set up with my Macbook Pro at home running Lion OSX, and i have internet connection. My brother who also uses Macbook has no problems connecting to my Time Capsule - through finder (connect to a server). But how do I gain "over-the-internet" access to my Time Capsule through a PC (Windows 7) from my office? Is there please someone who can guide me step-by-step, how to gain connection to my TC through a PC? Or maybe just an explantaion what has to be done on the PC before this thing can work out! This was the main reason to why i bought Time Capsule - besides of the Time Machine function. I also have an iCloud account (earlier Mobile Me), if that makes any difference.
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Please consider, that I have absolutely no idea of networking.

I don't know exactly how, but I got it working. I will try to explain, what I did.
1. I used the easybox as DHCP-Server an set the TC to Bridge Mode.
2. Then I gave the TC a fixed IP in the easbybox menu by using it's MAC-address (It seems that the address range has to be either 192.168.X.Y or 10.0.X.Y to make the TC accessable later).
3. I made the TC a DHCP-Server (DHCP only, not also NAT). The IP addess range of the TC starts after it's own IP adress (10.0.0.111) and ends at (10.0.0.250). The IP range of the easybox starts with 10.0.0.1 (it's own) and end with the TC's (10.0.0.111).
4. Then the Airport Utility told me that if I want to share an DHCP range the TC has to be set to a fixed IP setting, which I set up, leaving the IP-address 10.0.0.111 and the Router IP 10.0.0.1 (the easyboxs').
5. Then it worked in my case. Since I don't even know what I did, I'm not shure if it workes under other circumstances.
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