Thanks for the reply - very informative!  After looking it all over, I'm 
strongly in the keep it simple camp.  Since I'm running BackupPC on a pretty 
low spec server, and I've got room for one more, I think option 1 you presented 
is my best bet: 1) Run two BackupPC servers and have both back up the hosts 
directly.

With this method I could continue to use low spec (read: cheap) servers and 
alternate the backup days between the servers, giving time for more thorough 
virus scanning of the backed up files.

Or maybe I could just spin up a virtual machine and back up the vm file like I 
do with the other virtual machines.

Either way, good point on the hard links.  Thanks for the info; that does 
answer my question!

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