Moving a TC sparsebundle to an external Firewire drive on iMac

Hi
My 1 TB TimeCapsule is full. I share the drive with my kids and wife for backups only - wirelessly. I just bought a 2TB external drive to hang off my iMac with the idea of using it as my dedicated Time Machine disk. (letting the others keep using Time Capsule)
How can I move the iMac TC sparsebundle to the Firewire drive and resume using that existing backup via Time Machine on my iMac?
I've read many posts and solutions for going from Firewire to TC, but not the other way.
thanks

A. Heimert wrote:
So this is scenario #2. Is it really as easy as copying the sparsebundle from the TC drive to the external attached to the TC?
How does one tell Time Machine where the sparsebundle has been moved?
By selecting the new location via +Time Machine Preferences > Select Disk.+
Note that if you copied the entire sparse bundle, it should be used only on a network. If you want to connect the drive directly to your Mac and continue backing-up to it, you need to copy the Backups.backupdb folder from inside the sparse bundle to the top level of the HD.

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