Anywhere but "the cloud." I desire actual control over my backups and who might have access to them. I spend money on redundant external drives, and spare part

Anywhere but "the cloud." I desire actual control over my backups and who might have access to them. I spend money on redundant external drives, and spare parts for said drives. I keep track of the age of my drives, the degree of usage/wear-and-tear they're subjected to, their warranties, and failure rates for sister drives of same make and model purchased at the same time. I don't worry about having a convenient interface to facilitate browsing through my backups. All I want is a bulk file system with no meta-data (no xml files, no db files). When forced to resort to restoring from backup, one is already faced with degrees of inconvenience. If the backup media is more convenient than the normal general-purpose everyday-use storage, then why is the backup media playing second banana to the day-to-day system?