Hey guys,

My youngest brother passed away suddenly just over two months ago. He was a talented musician / producer, and has two computers that he worked on.

One is a relatively new machine that I built for him (Ryzen 7 5800X / 32GB ram, RTX 3080, win10), and one is an old machine (ryzen 5 1600, 16gb ram and an rx480, also win10).

He recorded on one, and produced on the other (may sound like an odd solution- but doing it all on the high end or lower end one was not possible at the time).

This basically means that he has a lot of unfinished works on both of those computers - work that my father would like to view and possibly expand upon in his own way.

He's not the most tech savvy person and learning the software (FL Studio) that was used to produce his music will take a while. He's afraid of accidentally messing things up.

This is where the backing up of all of his data comes in. The backing up basically serves two roles in this case; saving his work, and allowing others to work on it without risk of damaging the originals (and restoring them if necessary).

There are a ton of ways to do this, and I was wondering if anyone could give me some pointers on the most practical approach.

Just for info, I would consider myself fairly tech-savvy but backing up personal data is new territory for me. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

If you require any more information, please let me know. I have access to both of the computers.

Edit: I have the budget to get whatever hardware is needed to make this as easy as possible. I can check whatever hard drives / SSDs are in both computers. The file/folder structures and installations must remain intact because licenses for music related software is an absolute pain to install due to plugins etc (from what i've heard, anyways).

Edit 2: Things I have put on my list so far and am planning to do:

1. buy equivalent sized or slightly bigger drives than the originals

2. Clone everything 1:1 onto the new drives, most likely with clonezilla

3. TBD

Edit 3: it's getting late and I have to work again tomorrow so I may not reply as fast in the next 12-18 hours as I have today. Thank you for all the advice and suggestions so far!

Next day update: I have just ordered all the required drives to start the initial copying. I'll most likely use macrium reflect, after some research it seems it suits all my needs and is relatively easy to use (people here recommended it, too). I'm not too sure yet what I'll do after the initial copies since there's a ton of options; most likely I'll store the copies in a flightcase and maybe copy them all onto one single drive eventually. Thanks again so far!