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Or just use Clonezilla? Then you also copy only the actual data blocks, and it can autoresize your partitions as well. That's how I always do it.

True, I do always just take the NVME disk out of the laptop and put it in a highspeed dock.

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Clonezilla is great. It's got one job and it usually succeeds the first time. My only complaint is the initial learning curve requires tinkering. It's still not at the trust level of fire and forget. Experimenting is recommended as backup is never the same thing as a backup and restore and even Clonezilla will have issues recreating partitions on disks that are very different from their source.

Spot on re: learning curve, it absolutely requires a test run or two before you'll get it right

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