Best method for archiving .mpp files on a separate server or location?

We want to be able to run a program or job on Project Server 2013 that will export all current published project .mpp files to a separate server or location on our network. What is the best, or suggested, method for something like this? Our managers want
to have this job run on a weekly or bi-monthly basis in order to have backup files of each active project schedule. This would be beyond the Project Server archive database. This would be for Business Continuity purposes of having those schedules available
should our servers ever crash.
Any help would be much appreciated. I am not a developer, but if there is code available for something like this we have developers in-house that can perform the work.
Thank you,
Travis
Travis Long IT Project Manager Entry Idaho Power Co. Project Server Admin

Project server already has an archiving mechanism which backs up project plans based on schedule and maitains versions of it which can be restored at any point ? check administrative backup in central Admin under PWA settings
However I wouldn't say this is the best method, but you can run a macro which would export all projects and save it at a location(could be network file share), Something like this (havent tested it recently with 2013 but i believe should work
Sub Archiving()
Dim Conn As New ADODB.Connection
Dim Cmd As New ADODB.Command
Dim Recs As New ADODB.Recordset
'Connect to Project Server Reporting DB, Get Project Names
Conn.ConnectionString = "Provider=SQLOLEDB;Data Source=servername;Initial Catalog=ProjectServer_Reporting;User ID=; Password=; Trusted_Connection=yes"
Conn.Open
With Cmd
    .ActiveConnection = Conn
    .CommandText = "Select ProjectName From MSP_EpmProject_UserView"
    .CommandType = adCmdText
End With
With Recs
    .CursorType = adOpenStatic
    .CursorLocation = adUseClient
    .LockType = adLockOptimistic
    .Open Cmd
End With
Dim prjName As String
Dim ArchivePrjName As String
Application.Alerts (False)
If Recs.EOF = False Then
   Recs.MoveFirst
   For x = 1 To CInt(Recs.RecordCount)
    prjName = "<>\" + Recs.Fields(0)
    FileOpenEx Name:=prjName, ReadOnly:=True
    ArchivePrjName = "C:\Temp\" & prjName & "4Sep2014_9PM"
    FileSaveAs Name:=ArchivePrjName, FormatID:="MSProject.MPP"
    FileCloseEx
    prjName = ""
    Recs.MoveNext
   Next x
End If
   Recs.Close
   Conn.Close
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Let us know if this helps
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