Would time machine be able to backup applications I installed and registered such as Adobe CS6 Master collection?

Hi,
So I have purchased some seriously expesive software such as Adobe Creative Suite 6 Master Collection and Office Mac Home & Business and would like to know if the time machine backup includes this ****? If not, will there be any backup utility to have the **** saved??
Thanks,
Hassan

Time Machine will backup applications along with your files and the operating system. However some applications have measures built-in that tie the particular installed copy to the particular machine it was originally installed on. You might think therefore that restoring it from the Time Machine backup to the same machine should be straight forward and depending on the application it might be so. However it depends on how it determines if it is the same machine.
It is unlikely to be as simple as just the serial number of the machine, it might be the hardware UUID of the Mac which I believe would stay the same even after a complete reformat but the UUID might change after a logic board change unlike the serial number. (Apple generally copy the serial number to a new replacement logic board when doing repairs.) It might also be linked to the UUID of the hard disk volume the Application is installed on. This will change each time you format the disk or use a different disk or volume. It could be tied to something else as well.
You can find the Mac serial number and UUID in System Profiler. You can find the UUID of a volume by using the following command in Terminal.app
e.g. diskutil info /dev/disk0s2
For the command above you need to use the numbers that match the volume you are interested in, you can get a list of all the numbers and which volume they correspond to via
diskutil list
Of course knowing the UUID numbers does not help if Adobe are indeed using them to tie a particular installed copy since you cannot change the UUID numbers yourself. If you are deliberately planning to swap a drive or do a restore then for such protected applications like those from Adobe and Microsoft it is best to deactivate the installed copy (Adobe also use Product Activation to track installed copies) and then uninstall it. Then like Gary Scotland said, use the installer to reinstall it.
Note: Even cloning a drive does not preserve the UUID values of a volume.

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