Tony Cooper
On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 02:22:14 -0500, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

nospam
In article <slrnl95t92.ksa.mr@irc.sandman.net>, Sandman <mr@sandman.net>wrote:

Sandman
Tony here seems to think that "Backup protocol" is something the user has to enable, define and set up in each application, while nospam is talking about the built in system-wide and automatic backup mechanism in OSX. So, in essence, there is no "backup protocol" in OSX, there is just "backup". No protocol needed. You turn it on and voila, your computer is 100% backed up. Congratulations.

nospam
i wasn't referring to just os x, but os x does make it very easy but it's not the only system that can do that.

Tony Cooper
Unbelievable! Between the two of you, neither understands "automatic". Anything the machine does automatically is pre-determined by the protocol established and inserted into the program by the developer of the program.

That protocol can allow user-defined protocol to done automatically in the future. This would include the where and when.