Best strategy for offsite backups

I am using TM on an external hard drive (call it #1) with my iMac, however I want to store a backup offsite, in the event of a fire, etc.
Can you use TM on one machine to make back ups on multiple different external hard drives (not necessarily at the same time)? Is this the best way to back up offsite, by using TM to make an extra external hard drive backup that I would store elsewhere?
If I use TM, would I get another external hard drive (#2), then turn off TM, disconnect external hard drive #1, plug in #2, then turn TM on, then have it do a full back up, then turn TM off, then disconnect #2, reconnect #1, and turn TM back on?
Let's say #2 has been off site for a month (while #1 has been running with TM on the computer) and I want to update #2. Is the best way to erase it, and do a full back up? Or, after a month, can I just plug it in and let TM do an incremental backup? Does it matter that TM has been doing backups with #1?
Sorry for the confusing questions.
Thanks for any advice.
Lee

Agreeing with Kappy that your "secondary" backups should be made with a different app. You can use Disk Utility as he details, or a "cloning" app such as CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper that can update the clone periodically, rather than erasing and re-copying from scratch.
[CarbonCopyCloner|http://www.bombich.com> is donationware; [SuperDuper|http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html] has a free version, but you need the paid one (about $30) to do updates instead of full replacements, or scheduling.
If you do decide to make duplicate TM backups, you can do that. Just tell TM when you want to change disks (thus it's a good idea to give them different names). But there's no reason to erase and do full backups; after the first full backup to each drive, Time Machine will back up only the changes made since the last backup +*to that disk.+* Each is completely independent.

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For simply two databases, there really wouldn't be a need for a recovery catalog. You can still restore/recover without a controlfile and without a recovery catalog.
From this:
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CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO REDUNDANCY window of 14 days.I am assuming you want to keep two weeks worth of backups, therefore these:
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Thierry H. wrote:
Thanks for your reaction.
So, i understand that Grid Control is for you not used to manage the backups, and as a consequence, you also have no 'direct' overview of the job schedules.
One of my concern is also to avoid that too many backups are started at the same time to avoid network / storage overload. Such overview is availble in Grid Control's Jobs screen.
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