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From: jeff@jeff.esd.sgi.com (Jeff Mock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Volume tricks to get around copy protection
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Date: 9 Oct 90 21:20:52 GMT
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Most music software is copy protected.  I'm not out to do anything illegal, I just
want to back up my software.  Most music software (Opcode Vision in this case)
allows the user to do a hard disk install so you can run the program without
the master disk.  My backup idea is as follows:

	Use SilverLining to make a second small partition just large enough to
	hold the copy protected programs.

	Do a hard disk install of the program onto this small partition.

	Make a copy of this partition, this is the backup.  If disaster strikes
	I can restore the parition exactly as it was along with preferences
	stored in the resources, etc and the copy protection code will
	be fooled since the volume will be restored exactly as it was before
	the disaster.

I thought DiskFit would do the job of copying and restoring the parition
to the exact state including any weird copy protection thingies that the
hard disk install put in the partition,  but it doesn't.

Does anyone know of a program that will make an *exact* copy of a 
hard disk volume?  Is there another way to backup these kind of
programs?

jeff mock
jeff@sgi.com