Using time capsule along with offsite backup?

hello, thanks for taking a look at my post.
for my office, we want to use time capsule to backup all of our computers, but are looking to then have that information backed up off-site in case of possible theft/fire/etc. at the office. does time capsule have an option to backup to mobile me?, or any other off-site storage?
if this is not the most ideal backup situation, I would appreciate any other suggestions.
thanks for your time,
steve

...does time capsule have an option to backup to mobile me?, or any other off-site storage?
No for both questions.
Time Capsule itself doesn't do any backups. Time Machine on each individual Mac is actually what performs the backup to the Time Capsule.

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