Drag and Drop backup copy of data to external Lacie problems. Mavericks

Trouble with Drag and Drop copies to external Lacie drive has gone from bad to worse. Mac CPU Senior advisor was stumped after 4 hours. It's been bucked up to the engineers. Do you have any ideas? First, Time Machine/Time Capsule to the newest Mac airport extreme is working fine. This drag and drop problem started mid 10.8. Came up with some work arounds. It's worse with 10.9. When I drag and drop data folders (Current IMac, Mavericks, thunderbolt to current Lacie 4tb) the copy starts ok, but randomly stops with the following window.
I'm then unable to complete to drag and drop from the source folder to the Target folder on the Lacie external. Occassionally if I retry, I get a window allowing "merge" of source and target. This works, but merge isn't offered with every folder.
.DS_Store files are hidden and in every folder as we know. They are supposed to be "ignored" when transferring data. They are for the most part, but randomly stop the copy of a folder. Any thoughts?
thanks alot...can you beat Apple engineers to the answer? I'm still trying work arounds

Hi, Rich -
So it wouldn't be an easy and fast way to make a bootable backup of the internal HD?
As a matter of fact, it is an easy way to do that. I do it all the time.
There is a trick, though...
When a volume (volume = an unpartitioned drive, or a partition of a partitioned one) is dragged to another volume, Finder will copy the whole thing to the destination drive, placing everything in a new folder on the destination drive; that folder will be named the same as the original (source) drive.
An OS 9 System Folder works best when it is at the root level of a volume. This means that after the copying is done, the System Folder should be moved out of the folder created on the destination drive. It is best to also move the Applications (Mac OS 9) and Documents folders out to the root level of the drive.
A few aliases may need to be fixed - the pathname to the original for a copied alias will still point to the original original, the one on the source drive, rather than to an original on the destination drive. Ones that may need fixing are - the one for Sherlock in the Apple menu (it can be found in the Apple Menu Items folder in System Folder); and perhaps a few in the Application Support folder in System Folder.
You will see a couple of additional folders in the new folder on the destination drive - one named Desktop, the other Trash. These will contain copies of items left lying on the desktop, and anything left unflushed in the Trash at the time of the copy process.

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