You can send them up to 1 TB of data per month for less than $30/year.
If you make the bucket public, the backed up files can be accessed directly using a standard URL. It'll be a bit long and ugly but entirely possible to memorize. If you want a braindead easy solution for encryption, you can store every X minutes as a passworded archive. Even your lawyer should be able to figure out how to download a file and open an archive. All you need to give him is the URL and password.
Of course, I would recommend setting up a web portal for more convenient access, streaming, and better backup and encryption options. But that -would- require a VPS or similar, and would cost a bit extra, and you seem hell bent on making a point of keeping it under $30/year. One might be tempted to point out what that says about how much you value your freedom, privacy and soul.
In any case, there's your viable, encrypted, lawyer-compatible offsite backup solution for under $30/year.
Now stop making excuses and blaming others for your laziness and incompetence.
PS:
You can get a suitable VPS for under $10 / month. $40/month for a VPS is a scam. Might as well go dedicated at that point.
GloryBeckons 1 points 10 months ago
I said object storage, not VPS. VPS is useful for many things but not cost effective for backups.
If you want me to advertise a specific product, here you go:
https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html
You can send them up to 1 TB of data per month for less than $30/year.
If you make the bucket public, the backed up files can be accessed directly using a standard URL. It'll be a bit long and ugly but entirely possible to memorize. If you want a braindead easy solution for encryption, you can store every X minutes as a passworded archive. Even your lawyer should be able to figure out how to download a file and open an archive. All you need to give him is the URL and password.
Of course, I would recommend setting up a web portal for more convenient access, streaming, and better backup and encryption options. But that -would- require a VPS or similar, and would cost a bit extra, and you seem hell bent on making a point of keeping it under $30/year. One might be tempted to point out what that says about how much you value your freedom, privacy and soul.
In any case, there's your viable, encrypted, lawyer-compatible offsite backup solution for under $30/year.
Now stop making excuses and blaming others for your laziness and incompetence.
PS:
You can get a suitable VPS for under $10 / month. $40/month for a VPS is a scam. Might as well go dedicated at that point.
Contabo offers 4 core / 8 GB RAM / 200 GB SSD / 32 TB traffic for $8.50/month, for example: https://contabo.com/en/pricing/