MIGRATING PREVIOUS TIMEMACHINE BACKUPS TO A NEW TIMECAPSULE

Hi Can anybody help me with this? I am fully aware that anyone can copy a Sparsebundle (all my previous TimeCapsule backups) that is now archived on my USB external hardrive. & migrate it to a new larger capacity TimeCapsule , I have read lots of people have had success using either ( SUPERDUPER OR CARBONCOPYCLONER OR DISK UTILITY ) .
Can someone guide me what the best Application to use as I've successfully copied it using SUPERDUPER but I'm not clear/sure what the next steps are as all I'm trying to achieve is to see all my previous backups on the Timeline on my new 1TB TimeCapsule .
I will be more than grateful for any HELP. THANYOU

I do see the icon that looks like a drive with a wifi tree in blue & I have setup my new TC & named it the same as my previous 500Gb dual one early 2009 version. But I now have the latest new 1Tb model on Apple website.
Sorry when I do open that data folder. With Superduper you have to make sure the data folder is empty then start a backup until it shows a Sparsebundle image then switch it off then do the erase then copy from my EHDrive the old Sparsebundle image. & you have to mount the image you make that you switch TM off as soon as it shows a Sparsebundle then soon as it mounts a icon appears on desktop saying TMachine backups
Then with Superduper you copy your old Sparsebundle file to the TMachine backups destination that appears on desktop then wait hours for it to copy which it does successfully
Then it says once it's copied. You enter TIMEmachine & my old backups should show in the new timeline but it only shows. Today's backup? Then I click on the backups icon that mounted & it then shows 2folders with the same Sparsebundle file in the (my name archive folder with a backups.backupdb with nothing in it then the 2nd folder is called (backups.backupdb & has exactly the same items in it ,it has the my name archive with my previous Sparsebundle file & again the backup.backupsdb with nothing in it?
I'm not sure why everyone leaving comments on that article of how to copy from An EHDrive are getting it right & I can't seem too?
I must be doing something wrong? Somewhere. THANKYOU for helping me. So far .if you know how I can sort this out PLZE let me know. Many thanks. It's driving me crazy !
Your probably sleeping as I believe u live. In USA

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