How to copy and entire external drive

I currently have a 250g WD external hd that i have been using since leopard came out as my time machine backup. I recently purchase a 1TB Wd harddrive and would like to copy my old backups onto the new one.What is the easiest way for this to be done?

Thanks, pvonk. After attempting to simply copy the TM file to an alternate drive, I came here to find the solution you provided. Worked like a charm using SuperDuper.
Cheers!

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