Are the primary and backup DBs in the same data center? If so, how would you restore from an "unplanned event" there? I ask because I faced that situation once years ago, and very quickly learned that uploading 10's of GB of data from an offsite backup will keep your site offline for hours.
In the end I ended up _driving_ a copy of the DB over to a data center. Adding a slaved-replica in another location is pretty easy these days.
In the end I ended up _driving_ a copy of the DB over to a data center. Adding a slaved-replica in another location is pretty easy these days.