Backup woes...

Hello all, I'm looking for advice/help with my backup issues. I have a lot of data that I need to backup, this is a home environment so I need consumer friendly/cost effective solutions. I currently have a NAS in RAID 6 with a max capacity of 48TB (It's not at that size yet but that will be the largest amount of data I will be using and I'm looking to futureproof to that size limit). This NAS has backup images of all the computers in the house, it also has my Movies/TV Shows and other miscellaneous data on it that isn't backup'd anywhere else (it's not vital if this data is lost at the moment as it's easily replaced/digitalised copies of physical media). I also have a single backup of my most important data that is kept offsite but this is only about capable of keeping 10TB of the 48TB I intend to have so isn't a complete backup. Basically I need to figure out a offsite backup solution. I looked at Backblaze and syncing my entire NAS to the cloud but at 48TB this would work out to $240 a month which is WAY to expensive in the long run, it would be cheaper to build my own offsite cloud then pay that plus there is the issue of internet bandwidth, it would take weeks to back up the data over the net. I looked into tape backups and that is a joke, costs like $3k for the drive and the tapes will cost me $1.5k and I will have to change over 30 tapes to do one backup, which is CRAZY stupid. There is cartridges as well but the cost and labour involved is still pretty much as crazy and expensive as normal tape. And it's all too slow. I think the best bet is to wait for HAMR drives to get super big and just use them when it becomes viable but that its like a good 5 years off til this happens and I will probably need to use multiple drives, and I assume it will be expensive. Other option is to build a duplicate NAS and cart it for backups but that is a bit stupid too. Any ideas or suggestions are welcome :S

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