Copying time machine disk for long time archive

not certain this is correct forum.
I have a 1 gb raid ext drive (two 1gb disks in raid 1). I use it as my Time Machine drive. It is now full.
I want to copy this data to a single 1GB drive, put it in permanent storage, and then reformat and reuse the raid drive as time machine #2.
This, I hope, would allow me to have the security of a raid setup as my current time machine disk and, when it is full, I can copy to another disk, then continually reuse the raid disk, within reason, of course, as my latest Time Machine disk #4, etc.
Can I do this and how would I do this?.

I think you can still do that with incremental backups to a clone, but I'm not certain.
I poked around Pondini's Time Machine FAQ and didn't see anything about making a duplicate of the TM disk.
As I stated earlier, I think it would work. And, I would imagine CCC or SuperDuper could clone the TM drive.
Searching for cloning a Time Machine drive I found this: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20071128055047339
and this: http://help.bombich.com/kb/troubleshooting/cloning-a-time-machine-backup
and this (which is much like the first, with pictures): http://www.macyourself.com/2008/12/10/how-to-copy-your-time-machine-backups-to-a -new-larger-drive/

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