Offial procedure to substiture external storage?

Sorry, not familiar with it.
Under Linux usually you can see permissions with e.g. ls

# ls -la /var/www/nextcloud/
total 160
drwxr-xr-x 13 www-data www-data  4096 Apr 30 15:58 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 root     root      4096 Apr 24 21:41 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  2629 Apr 30 15:58 .htaccess
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data   101 Apr 30 15:58 .user.ini
drwxr-xr-x 33 www-data www-data  4096 Apr 30 15:58 3rdparty
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 15752 Apr 30 15:58 AUTHORS
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 34520 Apr 30 15:58 COPYING
drwxr-x--- 72 www-data www-data  4096 May  5 14:14 apps
drwxr-x---  2 www-data www-data  4096 May  6 11:06 config
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  3910 Apr 30 15:58 console.php
drwxr-xr-x 23 www-data www-data  4096 Apr 30 15:58 core
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  5048 Apr 30 15:58 cron.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data   156 Apr 30 15:58 index.html
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  2976 Apr 30 15:58 index.php
drwxr-xr-x  6 www-data www-data  4096 Apr 30 15:58 lib
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data   283 Apr 30 15:58 occ
drwxr-xr-x  2 www-data www-data  4096 Apr 30 15:58 ocm-provider
drwxr-xr-x  2 www-data www-data  4096 Apr 30 15:58 ocs
drwxr-xr-x  2 www-data www-data  4096 Apr 30 15:58 ocs-provider
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  3056 Apr 30 15:58 public.php
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  5235 Apr 30 15:58 remote.php
drwxr-xr-x  4 www-data www-data  4096 Apr 30 15:58 resources
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data    26 Apr 30 15:58 robots.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data  2381 Apr 30 15:58 status.php
drwxr-x---  3 www-data www-data  4096 Apr 30 15:58 themes
drwxr-x---  2 www-data www-data  4096 Aug 16  2019 updater
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data   362 Apr 30 15:58 version.php

I would recommend to user ether rsync with key -a or -pr

rsync -a /source/folder/on/1TB /destination/folder/on/4TB

or cp with key -Rp

cp -Rp /source/folder/on/1TB /destination/folder/on/4TB

This will keep current permissions during the copy to the new drive. In this case it will be better to keep the same FS, e.g. ext4, and not ntfs or FAT32 :grin: