The next day, the novice's disk crashed. Three days later, the novice was still reinstalling software.

I laugh in NixOS

Adding another link, perhaps not equivalent:

https://freefilesync.org/

I use it to backup media. If the backup roots are your drives, restoring is as easy as copy-paste, merge folders and wait.

Edit: actually, you may be able to just reverse the direction of the sync. I'm not sure.