# moving to bigger drive
**URL:** https://dietpi.com/forum/t/moving-to-bigger-drive/4724
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [11 December 2020 15:28 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/moving-to-bigger-drive/4724 "2020-12-11T15:28:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@manilx](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/manilx)
#### Post date: [11 December 2020 15:28 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/moving-to-bigger-drive/4724/1 "2020-12-11T15:28:36Z")
Hi
I’ve started with a 64GB PEN drive and all is running well. As I’m running Plex server the drve is getting fuller (videos are on NAS). And I want to be prepared in the event of filling up the drive.
What’s the best way to move ALL to a bigger drive under dietpi? I have found the following article [https://peppe8o.com/raspberry-pi-migrating-to-larger-sd-card-with-windows-step-by-step-guide/](https://peppe8o.com/raspberry-pi-migrating-to-larger-sd-card-with-windows-step-by-step-guide/) but it uses “raspi-config” which is not there on dietpi.
Help much appreciated!
P.S. My other scenario is to use dietpi-backup (I have run it and backed up on 2nd pen drive). Start from scratch with dietpi install on bigger drive to a minimum boot and then use dietpi-backup to restore all. Does this work as expected?
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### Author:  [@Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Joulinar)
#### Post date: [11 December 2020 18:19 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/moving-to-bigger-drive/4724/2 "2020-12-11T18:19:18Z")
Hi,
many thanks for your message. usually it should work to create an image from your current drive and re-flash it to the new drive. Similar to what is described on following link on the install section [https://dietpi.com/forum/t/raspberrypi4-rpi4-upgrading-from-existing-sd-card-setup-to-boot-from-ssd/4555/1](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/raspberrypi4-rpi4-upgrading-from-existing-sd-card-setup-to-boot-from-ssd/4555/1)
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### Author:  [@manilx](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/manilx)
#### Post date: [11 December 2020 19:02 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/moving-to-bigger-drive/4724/3 "2020-12-11T19:02:10Z")
Thanks for the info. So I can resize the SD via drive-manager (make it use the bigger size of the new SD) then…
The note at the end "I fooled around trying to do a fresh install on the SSD and then use dietpi-backup to try to restore the backup made from my microSD onto my SSD but was unsuccessful. " was exactly my plan B.
Isn’t this supposed to work? Or does dietpi-backup only restore to the original drive to go back to a previous configuration?
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### Author:  [@Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Joulinar)
#### Post date: [11 December 2020 21:34 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/moving-to-bigger-drive/4724/4 "2020-12-11T21:34:58Z")
dietpi-backup will restore everything, including information of the old drive. Easiest way is to go with creating an image and flash it to the new drive
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### Author:  [@manilx](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/manilx)
#### Post date: [11 December 2020 21:41 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/moving-to-bigger-drive/4724/5 "2020-12-11T21:41:27Z")
Thx!