Is it necessary to do offsite backups when you're on Rackspace?

Rackspace does daily image backups of the server, which does backups every half hour. If the server is hacked, and all backups are removed, there'd still be the image backup. Then again, what if Rackspace exploded into a million tiny pieces of glittery magic?

How do you do it?

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It's necessary to do offsite backups at all times, regardless of any guarantees, assuming you care about your data. The ideal solution is to have backups on-site for quick recovery, and backups off-site for disaster recovery, and both backups should preferably be situated on RAID-6 storage.

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