If I have a MacBook through which I will like to access a Remote Time Capsule via Back to My Mac in order to perform updates to my Time Machine backup on said Time Capsule, which should be the correct settings o accomplish this?
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The first thing to check is if the Time Capsule was told explicitly to share the files over the internet using bonjour or simply sharing to the WAN.
Have you verified that the active profile on the Airport is set to allow this?
My example has these turned off (you can see them under the guest access control)
Time Capsule supports copying backups stored on it to an external USB-disk (put in the USB-port on the device).
You need to trigger it through the Airport Tool.
After copying the copy can be used as a Time Machine disk when restoring files or reinstalling OS X.
(I do not use the TC as a network disk, so any files stored there, must be manually copied)
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You would want to run a VPN server on the network where the Time Capsule sits so that your remote machine can log in over the internet as if it were a local computer.
This pokes holes in the network since most people don't allow their Time Capsule to be reachable by anyone on the internet and have their entire home network hidden behind a router with a local and non-routable internet address.
OS X server would be an inexpensive and well documented / supported manner of setting up a VPN or sharing any hard drive with others for Time Machine backups as well as enabling a local Time Capsule to be reachable directly by VPN clients.