files such as mp3 or wma files since identical files can be found in many repositories purchased and or re encoded from for example the original cd further exemplary forms of such information files could be standard executable files shared library files and so on i e the exe dll files available on a general purpose computer this embodiment requires that administrative information required for the enabling and performing of restore operations is available in the embodiment of fig4 use is made of a third local device 21 comprising a second display 20 a second user input device 19 a third processor 23 and a fourth memory area 22 the third local device 21 will be the restoration source of any information files that the system 1 determines can be restored the third local device 21 does not contain any administrative information required for the enabling and performing of a restore operation furthermore the second local device 4 has a configuration similar to that as shown in fig1 and comprises the second memory area 5 the unique identification 11 the second processor 15 and the optional third memory area 6 the information file connection 9 allows information files to be exchanged between the third local device 21 and the second local device 4 the list of information 12 is again used to denote such administrative information required for the enabling and performing of restore operations it is required that the third local device can access the location at which the list of information 12 is stored during the restore operation in fig4 the second local device 4 is shown to.