Use time capsule iMac 1tb in 500gb external drive

Today my question is this:
I have a imac with snow leopard running and i have 1tb hdd. I wanted to start using time machine but the only external drive that i have avaiable has only 500gb... so i was thinking if it is possible to split my hdd in 2 particions (500gb each) and use only one partition to back up through time machine?

Bad Idea. Time Machine is for Backing up your complete system to some other hard drive, usually an External drive. If you partition the internal drive and use one of those partitions for Time Machine backups if that internal drive fails you LOSE EVERTHING. Your OS X system and all of the Time Machine backups you stored on the second partition.
Partitions or just that, a Segment of one physical disk. Partitions don't fail. Physical disks do fail and when they do all partitions are lost.
Go out and buy a bigger external drive to use for the TM backups and use the 500GB external for a second copy of your most important files.

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Excerpt from ASC contributor Pondini's Time Machine FAQ:
3. Can I use my TM disk for other stuff?
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1. Mount the Time Capsule as a drive and drag the application over to it. If the application requires system components, those won't be transferred; if those are only data files, you may be able to drag them over as well and then create a symlink or alias to a folder enclosing their current location.
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Thanks for that advice. I have heard of it but a friend who does IT support at a University nearby suggested using Disk Utility to save an image - hence this is currently underway at present. Once this is finished I will try Carbon Copy Cloner.
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Also once I have the clone completed from CCC, is the process then to reformat the old internal drive and then clone from the CCC external drive back to the internal and then reboot and trust all is well?
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http://www.econtechnologies.com/site/Pages/ChronoSync/chrono_overview.html

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The Time Capsule:
Is connected directly to my Mac Pro via a cat 5 cable.
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I have wifi turned off.
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I see it show up in my finder side bar as a shared device.
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