[jlcheng]

That's pretty much how it should be done. Let's hope the guys at astalavista is smart enough to do that. Your approach adds an additional layer of protection in case, as you'd put it, someone gets into your home server and deletes them. That, and tapes are less likely to get corrupted or become unreadable than the drives on your server, which may cut down on recovery time.

When your business gets bigger, it might be worth it to look into dedicated hosting and have the datacenter do the backup for you. After all, you want to spend your time managing your IT crew, rather than driving those tapes to the bank :)