>Most people would just suggest to store it in "the cloud", but I'm naturally averse to doing so because that means someone else is responsible for my data and I could loose (sic) it to hackers, the entity going out of business, etc.
Simply strongly encrypt your data before backing it up to the cloud, you will be at no risk of hackers or anyone else gaining access that way. If you can't find a cloud storage service that you trust/trust won't go out of business, you can make your own cloud using Amazon's AWS system. The levels of security at the facilities and redundancy mean your data will survive anything short of nuclear Armageddon. Personally I'd just go with the local encryption option.
I can't tell if you're joking, but since you are currently at +5, Funny, I'll just leave this here.
Tarsnap does exactly as you suggest, without the need for you to build it on your own. Its client is read-only open source software encrypting your stuff locally, then sending it out to Amazon to be stored. The client sports a tar(1)-like interface and runs on basically any POSIX OS variant, including Cygwin.
Price: 250 picodollars per Byte/Month (Yes, Really.)
Check it out!
(Reposted my previous anonymous comment, so it might not be lost. Disclaimer: not affiliated with above-mentioned company.)
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>Most people would just suggest to store it in "the cloud", but I'm naturally averse to doing so because that means someone else is responsible for my data and I could loose (sic) it to hackers, the entity going out of business, etc.
Simply strongly encrypt your data before backing it up to the cloud, you will be at no risk of hackers or anyone else gaining access that way. If you can't find a cloud storage service that you trust/trust won't go out of business, you can make your own cloud using Amazon's AWS system. The levels of security at the facilities and redundancy mean your data will survive anything short of nuclear Armageddon. Personally I'd just go with the local encryption option.
I can't tell if you're joking, but since you are currently at +5, Funny, I'll just leave this here.
Tarsnap does exactly as you suggest, without the need for you to build it on your own. Its client is read-only open source software encrypting your stuff locally, then sending it out to Amazon to be stored. The client sports a tar(1)-like interface and runs on basically any POSIX OS variant, including Cygwin.
Price: 250 picodollars per Byte/Month (Yes, Really.)
Check it out!
(Reposted my previous anonymous comment, so it might not be lost. Disclaimer: not affiliated with above-mentioned company.)