The archive.dat files will not be encrypted with your PS3's Device ID so they can be restored on any PS3.
#Extract ps3 dat file ps3
The copy-protected files are encrypted with your unique PS3 device ID so they cannot be decrypted on another PS3. The copy-protected files are for your PSN games, copy-protected save files and the like. There are also two types of backups, regular files and copy-protected files. The index files will contain the list of all the files and directories in the data files while the data files will only contain data. These are the " Data files" for your copy-protected dataĪs you can see, there are two types of files, Index files and Data files.
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PS3xport: PS3/EXPORT backup manipulation utility