Moving Old TM Backups to a New Hard Drive

HI,
Unfortunately my 6 month old ext back up HD (Co to remain nameless) has died! I've managed to recover the TM backup folder and most of my media files with Disk Warrior.
I have tried to use Disk Utility 'Restore' to image the old drive to the new drive but this creating a host of problems (which I suspected 'imaged' the faulty drive data across). I have reformatted the new drive to fix this.
How can I get the back up folder across to the new drive?
Any help greatly appreciated!
Cheers

I don't think this will work. you really have to clone the drive but doing so will mess up the directory structure as you've found out. you can try one or 3rd party cloners like CCCloner or Superduper. they do file by file copy rather than block by block as the restore function does but i have serious doubts this will work either.

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