Transfer contents of data only HDD to new SSD

[alpinejohn]

Hello chris36

I would use Grsync (a GUI frontend for rsync). You may find this post with a link to a good video tutorial helpful:

Grsync questions

Hallo fixit7 You may find this video useful: If you run into a UID-problem grsync can be a useful tool, as you can choose to “switch-off” preserving permissions. Deja-dup, the backup software included in Ubuntu-Mate make “compressed”, “incremental” backups - you need a copy of deja-dup to access the backup again. With grsync you can make an uncompressed backup that you can access from any attached Linux computer. My personal backup strategy uses both.

Hope this helps you.