From: "Geo." 

If for example your install is keyed to a cpu serial number, a backup that
you restore to a replacement machine with a different serial number will
not work.

If your disk is encrypted, and the encryption key is derived from a cpu
serial number, a restore of a drive image to a replacement machine will not
result in the ability to unencrypt the drive. etc. Same goes for any drm'd
files, if you can't recover them then your backup has failed.

Backup is not software and it is not the act of making an image of a drive,
it is a procedure that includes restore. If the restore fails, then the
backup has failed.

This is why I keep saying that copy protection and backup are incompatible,
they work to defeat each other.

Geo.

"Gary Britt"  wrote in
message news:45c57d48$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> We're talking past each other.  All my statements have been about Acronis
> TrueImage backup and I assumed your statements and questions that followed
> were about or related to products like Acronis.  So how does, if at all,
> your statement about copy protected stuff there is no such thing as a
> reliable backup.  My Acronis backups are reliable drive images.  Now if I
> had any DRM infected files maybe they couldn't be restored to new
> hardware, but everything else that I use could.  Of course I don't use
> Vista.
>
> Gary
>
> Geo. wrote:
>> Read the restore procedure for windows backup.
>>
>> Geo.
>>
>> "Gary Britt" 
wrote in message
>> news:45c52da9{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> ??   Everything that I backup is copyrighted?  An image restore is an
>>> image restore no?
>>>
>>> Gary
>>>
>>> Geo. wrote:
>>>> If the product you are backing up is copy protected, there
is no such
>>>> thing as a reliable backup.
>>>>
>>>> Geo.
>>>>
>>>> "Gary Britt"
 wrote in message
>>>> news:45c4f19c{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>> You have to use products like Acronis TrueImage if you
want a reliable
>>>>> backup.  I've never used an MS Backup Utility since Dos 6.2.
>>>>>
>>>>> Gary
>>>>

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