If your goal is to get your clients data from their servers across a WAN to your local servers where you then back the data up to tape then have a look at Doubletake.
Just install the Doubletake software on each remote server that you want to backup.
At your end you have a server with Doubletake software and a tape drive.
You can sync many remote servers to your one local server.
You can even offer DR capability to your clients using Doubletake High Availability failover.
The software only syncs the the data that has changed and works at the byte level.
www.doubletake.comCool product, we use it to sync to our DR center.