Advice...Need To Backup and Replace Internal Drive

After a couple years, I have a bad feeling about my internal drive on the Mac Pro.
So....if I use SuperDuper to clone my entire internal drive, and I tell it to copy this to an external drive I have (which also has data on it, but has enough room to copy my internal), then once it's copied over there, and I install a brand new drive for a startup, how does one get the backup off the external drive back on the new blank drive? Do you just reverse the process and use SuperDuper to copy from the folder you copied everything into, onto the new drive?
My head is starting to hurt thinking about all this;)
Thanks
Tom

Boot to your restore DVD or a factory OS X disc released AFTER your machine was made. Make sure all externals are connected. Once you get to the desktop and see the "Install Mac OS X" stuff go to the 'Utilities" menu item and open Disk Utility.
Highlight the new Volume and Select Erase Tab, name what you want and set as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Click erase. You can also setup partitions if you need.
Then navigate to the "Restore" tab, click choose source and navigate to the superduper backup file. Click OK.
Drag the newly created "Named" volume into the destination field. Click restore and wait.
Alternately, if your HD is still working you can boot to the DVD and Disk utility and drag the volumes into source and destination to make a clone with out Superduper. This will save some time. If your old
boot is dead this will of course not work.

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