Backup and restores are hard. Last week, I upgraded my home laptop's SSD. I decided to take out the old one, do a fresh install on the new one, and restore th

Backup and restores are hard. Last week, I upgraded my home laptop's SSD. I decided to take out the old one, do a fresh install on the new one, and restore the backup from a Synology NAS. The good news: Backup seems complete. It's not the first time I migrated like this, and an older hardware upgrade went a lot less well, so I am happy. The bad news: It was far from a trouble free process. I succeeded in the end, but had to restore a few times because the first tries were botched and there were some gotchas to learn.