As long as the off-site isn’t the same location or method of access, that’s generally fine. Essentially, you want to make sure you have a way to get at the data no matter what happens.
Fire/damage on location: pull off-site such as online backup Internet down: pull hardware based backup
Contingency plans, essentially
So, while I agree on that part, the maintainer of snorblite is one step from getting shut down by the feds due to radical actions and an alleged affiliation to a known csa distribution network. As soon as he’s brought in for questioning, all data tied to his machines will be deleted and we’ll have to rely on forks of the library from previous versions with outdated dependencies.