Can I copy Applications to a new Hard Drive?

My PS4 is very much scraping the upper limits of it's 500GB Hard Drive (I had to go on a purge just so I could fit Arkham Knight onto the system). But the one thing that's really putting me off taking the plunge and getting a new Hard Drive is I can't find an answer to whether or not I can copy an application straight over. I know for the most part just redownloading the application is the easiest scenario, but in this case the application I'm trying to preserve is 'PT', which to the best of my knowledge I can never get back once it leaves my system. So is there any way I could get it on my new Hard Drive given that it's no longer available to download? 

Do a full system backup to an external drive, it has been confirmed in another thread that EVERYTHING is backed up, that means downloaded games, so a demo would be no different Settings>system>backup and restore

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