Carbon Copy Cloner (or sim) copy Disk Authorisations?

[Jon_Atkinson]

Just about to put Leopard on my PPC G5 (yeah I know I'm a bit behind.... Been working on a long-term project and didn't want to upgrade in the middle.... And I can't go to Snow Leopard obviously....!)
I was intending to use CCC to copy my current drive to an external drive, then partition the internal drive and re-copy my Tiger-based system back to one partition, and stick Leopard and PT8.01 on the other partition...
That way I can quickly switch back to Tiger and 7.4 if there are any incompatibilities with opening old sessions in the future...

My question is this... If I copy my current system drive, then copy back to that same drive (albeit partitioned) will I have to re-authorise my plugins which have a disk based authorisation...?

Thanks

Jon

[allstaar]

Not in my experience, No. Disk authorizations remain after cloning.

[woodsdenis]

Some do some dont. Stylus RMX for me never has to be reathorised but all the other Spectrasonics stuff does

[AKA]

For us, only SuperDuper worked properly (as far as authorizations are concerned)
check it out if you wish :

http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDup...scription.html

[Jon_Atkinson]

Fab,
thanks for the advice guys...
Will try SuperDuper, and see how I get on.....

[OliJ]

The solution I used was to load Leopard on to a new disc, then do fresh installs of everything. I kept my old Tiger drive as is and put it in an external firewire case, like you I wanted to reboot in Tiger should I have lost any plugins. Note, it has to be a firewire case, as you can't boot from a USB one.

[Jon_Atkinson]

Yeah.... I'm thinking that's not a bad solution too....
The plan behind putting the backups back onto one internal drive was for simplicity of switching....
Thanks for all the suggestions

[GS-DK]

+1 for SuperDuper - never let me down!

[TCDet]

SuperDupper here.++
All NI kept their auths.
Old funny App's like Recycle 2.01 need re-auth's even with an OS update.