Fire Wire Target Disk Mode

I Have a MacBook Pro 2010 that I have put into FireWire target disk mode. Is there any way to just copy the entire hardrive onto my other MacBook Pro rather than going through the entire hard drive and transferring everything separately?

Once in TDM you can perform any type of file transfer/backup that you could do with any other mounted disk. However, if you wish to copy everything to your other computer then you need a way to keep the contents apart from your regular computer. Maybe you could tell me what it is you wish to accomplish with transferring the TDM drive to your other computer.
What OS X versions are installed on each computer?

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    Message was edited by: Suz

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