Force of habit I suppose tbh. I never really thought about doing it as an encrypted file backup but that's certainly a better option. You are correct that a protected ISO does *NOT* store any information. Which is why I activate LibreDrive before making the ISO with ImgBurn on my NS60 (non-friendly drive). From that protected ISO I usually end up mounting it in Virtual CloneDrive and letting MakeMKV make a decrypted folder backup. So, my workflow is pretty terrible compared to just creating an encrypted folder backup.mike admin wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 7:12 pmWhy ISO? (I mean "why" in a sense "what is the benefit", not to offend you or discuss what particular workflow or tools are better.)
Why not non-decrypted backup (same as ISO but files). Is there any "standard" for protected ISO, i.e. where all the key-related information is stored in SIO, that normally gets stored in iscatt.dat of MakeMKV backup?
What usually happens next after "protected" iso is mounted - convert to mkv (why not file->open then), decrypted backup, any other tools?
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