Two or Three Time Capsules/Time Machine in One Mac Pro?

Hi,
I recently bought a Mac pro, and it has 4 HD in the 4 bays. I bought a 1TB Time Capsule for the start up disk, but was wondering if I can expand it to 2 or 3 Time Capsules, so I can also safe guard the other HD's in in the other bays. I dont want to do it with 1 TM for the 2 or 3 HD's as the data wont fit.
I woould appreciate any input as I have searched and cant find a thing on this.
Many thanks!

To back up this much data you would be better of looking at a Drobo. Using 2 TB drives, you could have up to 6 TB backup storage with risk of data loss only if 2 drives fail at same time.

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