AntePurgatorio on Nostr: I've always used dd to copy and backup my drives, but I'm old. Basically, boot from ...

I've always used dd to copy and backup my drives, but I'm old.

Basically, boot from usb, plug new drive into port, dd if=/dev/olddrive of=/dev/newdrive bs=4M and then extens your partitions

https://snapshooter.com/blog/how-to-clone-your-linux-harddrive-with-dd

Just make absolutely sure your source and dest are correct, there is no recovery of you overwrite your old drive.