Cloning drive in order to reformat to APFS
Hi, I was wondering if anyone can help me with this. I'm a music producer and I use external SSD drives for storing and streaming audio, both of which are currently formatted to Mac OS Extended. I've realised that it would be much better for their performance if I convert them to APFS, but I'm unable to do so as there's no GUID partition scheme, so it looks like I'd need to reformat them in order to use APFS. So I have 2 main questions/problems here:
1 - These are both backed up via Time Machine, so ideally I would like the 'new' drives to be recognised as the old drives so that my Time Machine backups don't get bloated backing up large amounts of data that has already been backed up, ie I would like a perfect clone of the existing drives, with all the same data, just in the APFS format.
2 - Further to the above, I use a sample library management software called Audiofinder, where I've spend a fair bit of time cataloging and tagging sounds, and I fear losing all this work if the drives are not recognised by Audiofinder as the original drive, because I'll need to rescan and retag a huge sound library.
If anyone could let me know whether this is possible via either Disk Utility/Time Machine, or via a third party option like Carbon Cloner, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 12.3