Hi, everyone. I recently got a good deal on a new M.2 SSD. I’ve ran into an issue trying to migrate my current setup over to the new SSD, as this 2.5in SSD is going on 6 years old, and I’d like to move over to the newer one just for some assurance for any data loss that could happen. I have successfully used Rescuezilla to backup this exact setup about a year ago, and it went through fine. I’m not very versed in the Linux ecosystem, but I pick up things here and there.
I tried using Rescuzilla/Clonezilla to clone my entire 2.5in SSD over to the new M.2 SSD, and both gave an error at around the 40 minute mark, pretty much as soon as it started working on the BTRFS partition. That being said, I read around for awhile and decided that maybe it would be best to ask the community what my best option is to move this setup and keep it intact as it is, with the expanded storage?
The last time I did a Rescuezilla clone, it was a Windows SSD going to a bigger drive. It worked, and then I just had to use Rescuzilla and GParted to allocate the free space back to the OS. I can’t tell if BTRFS is just harder to clone, or if the tools I am trying to use aren’t the best for it. I have been using Tumbleweed for only a year now, and mainly use it for gaming. I can do some command line stuff, but generally prefer the GUI options if available.
Whatever help can be provided would be very much appreciated, thank you!