The back-up plan
When Mercury is Retrograde? Always have a back-up plan. It’s that simple.
The back-up plan
I tried to switch internet providers just prior to Mercury’s little backward tumble. It was a cost-savings, cost-cutting plan. I have two inputs for network access, two wired location, two holes in the exterior walls. One is for cable, the other is for phone/internet. Both offer fast broadband access.
The actual notices were AT&T, the Death Star itself, used the first fiber cable laid here. No idea, no supporting evidence, but the throughput on the Death Star has been better than any other options, and for a while, it was cheapest.
Persistent price increases annoy the bejeebers out of me.
The cable company, used to be Time Warner Road Runner, kept plying me with offers, so I caved and tried it. Which meant, different input to the home-wireless set-up — the other hole in the wall.
There’s a closed network for the doorbell, thermostat, and two surveillance cams. Then there’s a guest network, no range to it, but also not password protected. Finally, there’s my own devices, TV, radio, tablets, phone, computers, along with those network attached storage devices for Apple’s automated back-up plan.
The back-up plan
I used that Apple automated back-up for years. Decades? It’s saved me more than once, but one of the Airport Time Capsules, as they were named, quit working.
So I reconfigured the whole network to proceed with the service change. Got it all working. Maybe a year or two back, I bought a cheap hard drive and plugged it into one of the Apple routers so that the drive could serve as an additional back-up device. Configured it with a few point and clicks, and let it run, forgotten.
During the reconfiguration to upgrade the internet access, I unhooked that drive, and it was scrambled, inadvertently erased at some point in the process.
Mercury is retrograde.
Unplugged the drive, attached it to the main machine, erased the drive’s contents, formatted it, and then, plugged it back into a different Apple Air-thing router (thing).
The back-up plan
There are aspects of the arrangements that I’m still struggling to get to work correctly. However, in its current format, there’s a back-up, then a remote back-up, with all of the mission-critical, time-sensitive material protected by an air-gap. None of this is fool-proof, but for now, it works, after a fashion.
Always have a back-up plan when Mercury is retrograde.
If it’s fool-proof, well, evidence suggest they invent better fools.
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