Using SuperDuper to migrate to larger HDD
 

I currently have one 500GB HDD that's almost full, so I've purchased two 1TB drives that I'm going to raid as one 2TB drive. I want to migrate everything I have on my 500GB to the larger drive and use it as my new boot drive.

I already use SD to do nightly backups, and after reading the documentation again I'm wondering if I can also use it to migrate everything to this new configuration.

Can I just run a full "backup" from the smaller drive to the larger one and set the new one as the startup disk?

Seems like that would work, but this isn't something I want to try and screw up, so I thought I'd ask in advance.

thanks

Yes. Lots of other examples of doing this on the forums - just make sure that you partition the drive properly, and name it the same as the original when you're ready to run from it.

Just to be clear, I'm going from:
- 1 500GB drive called Macintosh HD to
- 1 2TB drive called "foobar", and the 1 500GB mentioned above

I was then going to take the 500GB drive and use it as a Time Machine backup.

Do I still really have to call the 2TB striped drive "Macintosh HD"? The documentation doesn't seem to do that in the examples.

Sorry I missed this in other threads, I guess I just didn't look closely enough. I'll go troll through some of those too just to make sure.

thanks again,
paul

Yes, it's best to call it Macintosh HD.