Possible to backup contents of 3TB Airport Extreme to external HD?

I have the new 3TB Airport extreme.  Being a paranoidsort I'm not happy with having just one backup (from computers to APE), so I want a backup of my backups (from APE to an external attached by USB).
Is there any way to make the APE backup its contents directly to a USB attached external drive?

Is there any way to make the APE backup its contents directly to a USB attached external drive?
Open the airport utility and check if there is an archive function on the disk page.. if archive is there .. it is for the TC.. then you can plug the USB disk into a hub with the main drive and it will backup .. but I kind of doubt it.
You can copy from the disk to a disk hanging off a computer.. this is faster than any other method. But still will not be fast.
But this is fundamentally the wrong way to do things.
If the backup of the computer is corrupt .. then the backup of the backup is also corrupt.
It is better to do a disk image with the USB drive plugged directly into whichever computer you want to backup.. disk images can be done via disk utility or another backup software like superduper or CCC. Then you are far more likely to have a solution if something breaks.
Check Q33, 34 and particularly Q27.. here. http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html

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