I want to make a copy of my Time Capsule backups

Good day.
I have 2 directors with Macbook Pro's. They both back up via Time Machine to a Time Capsule.
Basically they wanted me to in a sense 'archive' a backup from time to time of the Time Capsule...the reason for this:
1. The time capsule automatically deletes old information when the drive gets full
2. They want a 'monthly' backup of the backups on the Time Capsule in case the capsule crashes tomorrow and one of the MAC the next day, they want to be able to get another capsule, copy the archive back and restore from it.
I know this seems very improbable but I am in South Africa and with the power / electricity issues we have here, I have seen my fair share of the weird and simply "whats the changes" scenarois to understand their concern.
All the posts I've come across all explain how to MOVE the time machine backups to a new destination - to create a new time capsule or time machine backup to a larger drive, etc etc. All I want to do is simply copy whatever is on the time capsule to another drive, but keep using the time capsule as per normal..kind of like a simple file copied backup of whatever is on the capsule.
Let me know if this is possible? My best guess would be to follow the process of changing the backup as per the posts I have come across to point to a new drive...let it copy, and then point the backup back to the original time capsule again.
My only fear is that its going to them do the copy process twice...which when 1Tb could be laboursome to say the least...especially to and from a time capsule on a 10/100 network!
Thanks!

My best guess would be to follow the process of changing the backup as per the posts I have come across to point to a new drive...let it copy, and then point the backup back to the original time capsule again.
My only fear is that its going to them do the copy process twice...which when 1Tb could be laboursome to say the least...especially to and from a time capsule on a 10/100 network!
Thanks!
Mountain Lion allows TM to backup to two different locations.. You can use the TC and a USB disk plugged into the TC.
It can then swap itself around or you can physically move disks around when you want to retain data.
Your guess.. of using the copy the backup to another location will also work.
Let me suggest it is no bad idea to backup.. a disk image with a different utility.. superduper does disk images only for free.. and you can do it from disk utility itself. A disk image can be far easier to recover from then TM which can be several hours and even then lots of stuff seems to need manual moving around.

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