Adjusting my backup plan with Lion and TM Plus Clone

Hi all, I am rethinking my backup plan for when I rollout Lion in my business. Currently in SL, we have clones scheduled to run every nite doing incremental backups and then we rotate the disks out periodically for offsite storage. Now I am thinking that since my testing shows that TM works really well in Lion, that we should use that as well. So I noted this week that, on average, TM eats up about 10gigs per day on the backup drive. Our installs / data per machine amounts to (let's round up to reduce the math) 250gb, and our drives are all 500gb total. That means that TM will cycle back every 25 days or so, yes? So if I reduce the clone schedule down to once every three weeks, things should be covered - right? Thx for any comments!

Sounds right.
Make a bootable clone with CarbonCopyCloner as well, then you can really sleep good at night. In case of catastrophic failure

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