WHAT TM FILES NEED TO BE BACKED UP FOR REDUNDANCY?

I have an Imac Duo with a 750gig internal. I have a 1TB external dedicated to Time Machine. Still concerned about losing data, I just purchased an additional 1TB external and was planing to backup the Time Machine drive using Deja Vu software. Do I have to backup the whole thing, mirror it or just the packet files? Not sure if I'm explaining this properly so basically, if anyone with a good redundancy plan can reply, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks,
Bruce

External drives are great, but may not protect you in case of fire, theft, flood, or direct lightning strike on your power lines. Thus a secondary, off-site backup is excellent practice (and what I call "Prudent paranoia").
This can be as simple as copying some critical data to DVD/RWs and taking them to your safe deposit box, workplace, or a relative's house.
And/or, put relatively-small amounts of data online (to iDisk via MobileMe and Apple's Backup app, or other places via MOZY or the like.
And/or, getting a pair of portable hard drives and making full bootable "clones" via CarbonCopyCloner, SuperDuper, or the like, updating them daily if possible (perhaps at 3 am). Then periodically, say a week, swap them and take the current one off-site.

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