Time Capsule as iTunes Server backed up to another Time Capsule

Riddle me this:
If I had a Time Capsule that I was using as an iTunes Server, could I back the contents of that Time Capsule to a 2nd Time Capsule via Time Machine?

bejonline wrote:
Again, thank you very much.
My current TC is 500GBs, not big enough for its current job of backing my my Macbook, which has a 500GB hard drive.
This is why I was considering buying a new TC for backups and using my old TC as a hard drive for iTunes. The Apple sales rep. said this was possible. Everything I've read says that it's not.
That much is possible (but expensive). Backing-up one TC to another isn't.
An Apple genius at my local store recommended (today) I upgrade the hard drive in my Macbook to a 1TB drive and buy a less expensive hard drive and daisy chain it to my TC.
I'm not sure what he means by "daisy chain." You can connect a USB drive to a Mac or a TC, but not both at once. You can move it from one to the other periodically, but if you do that a lot, you may damage the tiny pins in the ports or cables.
It would seem that both options would cost about the same. What would you recommend?
A larger HD in your MacBook probably makes sense if you're going to keep it for a while. If you want to keep the music there, you'd always have access to it, of course; and it will be backed-up; and you could share it over your network with the AppleTV.
Connecting a USB drive to your TC and backing-up to it, instead of the TC's internal HD, also makes sense. You can copy the existing backups from the TC to the USB drive, and continue backing-up to them, if you want. It takes a while, but can be done. See #18 in [Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/FAQ.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum).
Once you do that, you could erase the TC's internal HD and put your music on it, instead of keeping it on your Mac. Then your only problem is backing-it up.
There is a facility that will "archive" the TC's HD to a connected USB drive; it has it's downsides, but would work, even to a separate partition on the USB drive. See [Time Capsule: Using AirPort Utility 5.3.1 or later to make a copy of the Time Capsule disk|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1281]. Chronosync might be able to do that better.

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