Tony Cooper
A "protocol" is the standard way something is done. While you may determine the steps in your head, it isn't a protocol until it's initiated and put into place. The fact that you initiate certain steps manually doesn't change anything. If you manually change the back-up to go to device B instead of device A, you are still following the protocol because the protocol says you must manually designate a change in destination devices.

Sandman
So you are talking about "the hard way"; manual when you are talking about this suppose "back-up protocol"?

Tony Cooper
What are you trying to say? That doesn't make sense.

A protocol is an established standard way of doing something. It can include manual steps. The Lightroom back-up protocol is that the LR file will be backed-up to whatever drive I specify at whatever frequency I specify. I can change the drive and the frequency manually. I can set it once and let it automatically follow that setting in the future.

What's so hard to understand about that?

How do you think an "automatic" process comes to be? Someone first decides what the process will be, and then writes it into the system.

Sandman
So... that makes it manual to you, Tony? It is automatic to the one using it.

Tony Cooper
Ahh...there we go. "It is automatic to the one using it." This is the Humpty Dumpty definition of words. "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less." (Alice in Wonderland)

Thanks for providing the silliness I expected from you.