Moving system to larger newer drive

I have a healthy 250gb system drive that is just about filled up.
What is the best procedure for moving the image on the old drive to a new larger drive and still retain all of my application authorizations and whatnot.
I also use super duper to back up this drive.
Thanks
Andy Murdock
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Use SuperDuper to clone the current drive to the new one. Swap the drives. Boot from the new one.

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