It does look a bit like a map of the London Underground system, doesn't it? All it needs is trains, signalling and a Fat Controller.
It is in fact my revised Backups Diagram. Now that the Samsung T5 2TB SSD is on its way - Amazon have confirmed dispatch, and it's only got to come from Cheshire (I did check before buying). It's scheduled to arrive at Melford Hall - snow and ice permitting - sometime tomorrow.
I can track it if I like. But do I dare, after that fiasco with the phone I ordered from Amazon on 15th January, which somehow got 'lost'? Well, quite possibly I won't have to speculate on the precise time of arrival. The courier will probably email me with the time of delivery - they seem to time it almost to the minute nowadays - and I won't have to tempt the gods by making my own enquiries.
Back to the Backups Diagram.
The new 2TB SSD is the red rectangle at the foot of the diagram, and every six months, starting with this month, I will comprehensively load it up with files and folders from my phone, laptop, and the two main hard drives. In between, other more specialised backups will be made, all according to a carefully worked out schedule.
The various devices involved will all be kept in different places, two of them constantly with me, the rest elsewhere. So unless I am washed up naked and destitute on a desert island, after a shipwreck, I will always be able to revive most or all of my stuff from these offline backups. There is also a lot up in the Cloud. But I'm not going to pay for Cloud Storage, apart from my Pro subscription to Flickr, which is really for Showcase Space rather than for archiving.
I admit that I did enjoy rejigging my Backups Diagram, and finding ways to make the colourful backup connections snake in and out in the clearest or most pleasing way. Even now I don't think it's perfect, but that just gives me an excuse to refine it further.
It's another lockdown leisure activity! A creative one! No wonder I'm rarely bored.
Incidentally, I have no plans to voyage anywhere, except possibly a day visit to the Isle of Wight later this year. So the chances of a desert-island shipwreck scenario are only so-so.
