How to transfer a smaller SD card/hard Drive to a bigger SD card/Hard Drive ?

[AndyFC]

If you can prepare your new drive and set it to be bootable, then copying the files is relative easy. AmigaOS doesn't lock system files like Windows so you can copy system files from your live system whilst it's running. If you copy the files then the partitions can be different sizes.

You can use the copy command with CLONE option to keep all the file attributes. I created a small script called Quikbackup which gives a simple GUI for this purpose http://aminet.net/package/disk/bakup/QuickBackup. I created and used it when I had to swap out a failing mechanical drive for a Compact Flash.

[AndyFC]

To AndyFC, your backup tool seems great, I have one question :
it seems that you can do cloning with it, can you clone from one device to a larger one ?

Thanks. Yes you can, it's simply a file copy tool. I regularly use it to back my boot partition up to a folder on another, larger drive.

[AndyFC]

To AndyFC, thanks a lot for your copy tool. It worked great to transfer the system partition from my old SD card to the new one. For information, I tried with DirOpus, but then the Amiga was not booting on the new system partition, your tool did better I do not know why.

Thanks for letting me know that it came in useful for you. I'm pleased it addressed your need. 😀