"backup for dummies": is there a simple strategy?

Hey, i currently do an incremental bootable backup using SuperDuper to an external hard drive via USB. works beautifully. love it. i'd just like the stuff on it to be secure from the eyes of any thief. i also want to have another copy off-site, and some sort of protection is particularly important for that.
option #1: i know i can create an encrypted disk image with a password and put files into it. but how can i do a whole bootable backup like that?
Bear in mind that i get a bit confused with the phrases 'disk image', 'clone' & 'encryption'; i'm not a complete dummy, just not a native geek-speaker. if you are kind enough to make any suggestions, pls keep that in (you beautiful, geek) mind.
jane

You might create a generic bootable external disk (just a minimum Mac OS X install and a copy of SuperDuper), then use an encrypted disk image (Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utility). SuperDuper can backup to a disk image.
Now if you have a failure, you can boot from the minimum boot image, then mount the encrypted disk image and use the copy of SuperDuper to restore that image.
You could also look at packages such as "PGP Whole Disk Encrytion" and "TrueCrypt Whole Disk Encryption".
No matter how much you want to avoid the terms 'disk image', 'clone' & 'encryption', they are going to come up when dealing with securing your external disk.
Another off-site option might be to use something like Mozy, CrashPlan, JungleDisk, etc... to maintain an encrypted backup of your data via a network backup to a secure facility somewhere out in the network cloud. The data would be encrypted on you Mac before leaving your home. This would avoid needing to rotate external disks to an off-site location (manually doing this can get old, and then you forget to do it for a month, then 3 months, and the next thing you know, it has been a year since you rotated off-site storage; on-line net backup happens auto-magically).

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