HT1178 Can you use Time Capsule when your computer is partitioned with bootcamp?

I know that if you attach a hard drive to "Airport Extreme" that you can not use the hard drive to back up a partitioned computer.  Can you using "Time Capsule" ?

Time Machine will back up the Mac OS X partition to the Time Capsule, but cannot back up the Windows one. This is the same with a regular external drive.
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