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Creating Tiger backup

Jun 19, 2005 12:04PM PDT

Hi. My school district's gotten a new OS 10.4 license and so every computer is covered in the upgrade. However, a school only gets one copy, a DVD, and I'm afraid it'll get scratched sooner or later, prolly by a renegade drive. Is there any way I can copy the DVD without making it unusable by some copyright protection? I think we really shouldn't use the original copy cuz it'll be a pain to get it replaced.

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Copy DVD
Jun 19, 2005 12:52PM PDT

If you have Toast Titanium, you can copy the DVD quite easily. You may even be able to do it with the Finder burning if you have a Mac with a Superdrive but I have not tried that. It's always nice to have Toast Titanium anyway is it is more versatile than the Finder burning.
You are fully licensed to produce a backup copy of the original. That is good thinking on your part.
You could also make a disk image of the DVD and store it on a server, but that's for another day.

Hope this helps

P

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Thank you.
Jun 26, 2005 1:31PM PDT

I've discovered that we need an external DVD burner now. So I'll see how it works out in a few months...Thanks.