Archiving old TM files--new TM disk

I'm moving my TM setup to an NAS drive. I originally wanted to use the NAS for iTunes, but that was too problematic and I discovered you can't back up an NAS drive to TM. So, I'm moving my iTunes folder to my old TM drive (USB external) and using the NAS for TM backup. I'd like to archive the backup files from the old USB drive, at least for a while, but I get error messages when I try to copy them. An example is "The item 'backups.backup.db' can't be moved because 'imacbackup' can't be modified". ('imacbackup' is a folder I created on the NAS.) I get other error messages when I try to copy the folder to the iMac itself. Is there something funky about the TM files that make them unmoveable? Thanks!

I doubt Disk Utility will even work on a NAS. But CCC should. If it doesn't provide access to a NAS then you'll need to try something that will such as:
Data Backup
Deja Vu
Silver Keeper
Retrospect
Super Flexible File Synchronizer
Synchronize Pro! X
Synk Pro
Synk Standard
Tri-Backup
Others may be found at VersionTracker or MacUpdate.
Or I don't see why you couldn't use the TM application to restore data to the NAS.

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