Thanks for the replies.
Off-site replication to a cold/warm/hot spare server is a more distant “phase 2” plan. For now I need to investigate off-site vaulting of the data–either disks or tapes that would be stored with a company like Iron Mountain and swapped out each week.
Basically the argument with my bosses boils down to D2D2T vs D2D2D. I think D2D2D is better than tape, but the IT director scoffs at storing disks off-site.
So if I MUST use tape, I need a solution to get my (Orchestra) backups from my XCP host to the tape device. If Orchestra cannot recognize a tape device as a viable backup target, I’d have to go with another product like Veeam, correct? But then the question becomes “does Veeam recognize XCP-NG as a viable source?”