[larrys]

I've worked with tapes offsite before hard drives became cheap enough to use for backup (of the appropriate amount of data of course).

My current setup goes as follows:

Servers in colocation get backup daily to a server in the office. That server in the office then gets backed up daily to a iosafe.com fire and water proof hard drive in the office which when I get a chance will be bolted to the desk for further security. Clones are then made of that server biweekly (which are bootable) and one is kept in the office and one is taken offsite.

So the office server is the offsite for the colo server and the clone of that is the backup for the office.

The clones allow you to test the backup (hook it up and it boots basically).

Added: Geographically the office is about 3 miles from where the backup of the office is kept. But the office is about 40 miles from where the colo servers are kept.