How to transfer system HD to a new HD?

I will change my current HD to a new SSD HD (the question is not about replacing physically the HD as it is not supported by Apple..).
This is the system disk that contains
- OS X Lion
- apps
- user work/personal data
There is a big external (SATA, RAID1) HD that receives the Time Machine backups... (and contains user files, pictures, ...).
Question:
- Is there a way (eg via Time Machine) to save the whole system HD on the external drive
- Then boot (from? Lion comes from Apple Store)
- And recover everything - apps and settings... - from the external drive?
Any (convenient) solution will be welcome, thanks.

If you plan to have everything that is on your current
internal drive transfered to the SSD, simply get one
of the many USB->SATA adapters. 
Attach the SSD to the adapter and plug it into the Mini.
Then reboot into recovery mode and select the disk
utility.  Then just do a Restore operation from the internal
drive to the external.
When the process is complete, reboot holding down the option
key and select the SSD drive and boot (will take a while since
it is USB).  Then check and make sure everthing is working as
expected.  Once satisfied, then do the swap.

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