SQL - Clone a record and its descendants?

As Martin suggested, you need to enable IDENTITY_INSERT so that you can push your own identity values. You may also need to acquire a table lock to ensure that Max( Id ) returns the correct value.

Assuming your CTE picks a root record and all it's descendents (it didn't seem to when I reproduced using your data above), then you can clone all selected records and insert like this.

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