I would suggest to reinstall from scratch to prevent that your fstab mounting options get messed up for the SSD. So, don't roll back your backup in that case.
Greetings
David
I might just wait until OMV 1.x is live ( soon yay!) .. save me a migration...
Clonezilla is the best way. You make an image and then restore it to new SSD. The new SSD has to be same size or larger though.
Format from SSD or HDD will be the same, you can clone it just fine. For TRIM support, you just need at least kernel 3.2 and some changes to your fstab. Here's a link with more info about that: https://wiki.debian.org/SSDOptimization.
The new drive can actually be smaller, but the rule is that it has to be big enough to accommodate the data that the original is currently using. For example, if your original drive is 250GB and only 10GB are in use, any SSD of 16GB or above will work just fine. Utilities such as Norton Ghost recognizes these differences and resizes each partition by percentage, or prompts you to assign new partition sizing before the cloning begins.
Is up to you if you want to start from scratch, but there's really no reason to do that. I've moved from HDD to SSD for several systems anywhere from Debian, to Windows and even OSX. With the right tool, you'll be just fine.
What version of Norton ghost do you use?
Trim should not even be in the equation in the decision to image and restore to a new drive. It can be activated after you have restored the image to the new SSD.
Does Ghost support Ext4??? I don't see it mentioned on their website.
If only it was OSX.. would take me mins to do this.. I'm fully versed with imaging and restore... but this seems to be a bit more involved... the 250GB OS drive isn't using much space.. not at the OMV server to check exactly...but only has OS, OMV and some plugins...
@spy.. "with the right tool" ... yep.. as always..
i guess i could enable EXT4 in Mac OS and as long as they mount.. I could image and restore...
.. it is me or is this more complex than it should be..?
thanks everyone for the help 
If you resize the OS partition on the hard drive to less than 32 gb (minus the swap partition size too), you could easily clone the hard drive to the ssd with clonezilla.
Boot gparted-live to resize partition.
thanks.. soon as the SSD arrives.. i'll break it.. sort it without any issues..
thanks again to everyone.. OMV rocks.. and the community here is great.. 
Does Ghost support Ext4??? I don't see it mentioned on their website.
They did support ext3 and they do have a version of Ghost that runs on Linux, but that was a while back. I am pretty sure they handle EXT4 (not that it makes that big of a difference) and it works real well. You can use the Windows version of Ghost too to clone EXT drives, makes no difference.
What version of Norton ghost do you use?
I've used Ghost 11.5. I am not sure at what version they are at right now, never bothered upgrading from there.
Just doing the same thing, replacing my 250GB drive (HP n40l) with a 32GB SSD - what did you use to duplicate the data in the end? I really don't fancy having to reconfigure everything again!
You can also copy all the files directly to the new formatted partition drive. You have to omit /dev /proc /media /mnt and /sys
Once you copy all the files you will need to re-create those previously omitted folders, just mkdir will do it.
Finally you will need to install the grub to your new ssd to boot properly
Also forgot you need to use rsync to copy and preserve the permissions.
also TOO MUCH work, better try the clone option, is the best and fastest way
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