<p>I was recently tasked with coming up with an offsite backup strategy. We have about 2TB of data that would need to be backed up so our needs are a little out of the norm. </p>

<p>I looked into Iron Mountain and they wanted $12,000 a month! </p>

<p>Does anyone have any suggestions on how best to handle backing up this much data on a budget (like a tenth of Iron Mountain)? How do other companies afford to do this?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>UPDATE :: UPDATE </p>

<p>Ironically enough, I just had the sort of devastating failure we're all talking about. I had my BES server fail and than 2 days later 2 drives in my Exchange server's RAID5 died (2!!!??!). I'm currently in the process of rebuilding my network and the backup integrity is an definitely an issue.</p>

<p>At least now my bosses are paying attention :)</p>

2TB is chump change nowadays.
Look into hard-drive based hot-swappable backup machines, and rent a box at your local bank:
http://www.high-rely.com/
(there are many more products such as this, but my Google-time is limited).