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Transferring time machine backup to secondary drive

I bought a new Mac mini m1. The drive sizes are ridiculously small. I bought a 1tb ssd external drive. How can I transfer my old time machine backup to the external drive. Migration assistant doesn’t have this option

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You’ll need to setup your external drive as a bootable drive with Big Sur and then using the Option (⌥)  key reboot under it, then you can restore to it!

Reference: Mac startup key combinations

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