That sounds very interesting Carl, I'd be keen to take a look at your scripts?
The reason I need a like-for-like ready-to-use copy is so that in the event of 
a disaster I am able to bring a disk unit to the client as a "drop in and 
ready" replacement of their (almost) most recent data while I pick up the 
pieces in the background  (eg, restoring from backuppc or whatever)
The data is in the several Tb range for most clients.
I currently use rsync for this (Both onsite and offsite) and am able to achieve 
this with great success but it tends to be quite fragile and needs some TLC 
(more than I'd like actually) and I like the way that backupPC just seems to 
work!! To be able to replace the onsite daily, incremental,  etc side of things 
with backuppc but still maintain the "ready to use" offsite element would 
really be great and a huge improvement on my current system.

As Timothy J Massey has seemed to imply, I do NOT expect BackupPC to do this 
(Unless there's some trick or feature of backuppc that I'm not aware of, then 
that would be an added bonus, but I doubt).
However maybe a third party project, script or fuse module?

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