Time Capsule can archive to an external drive
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According to the “need-to-knows of backing up” section on Apple’s Time Capsule product page, you can sleep or even shut down a Mac in the middle of a Time Machine backup. When the Mac is active again, the backup is resumed.
Now who’s willing to try this and confirm in the comments?