Restore OS X Server 10.6 from CCC Folder Backup

Hi there!
I own two Mac Mini (same model)
Mac Mini No1 was used as a server (OS X 10.6 Server). Mac Mini No2 as cover.
I've got a Carbon Copy Cloner backup of the System HD.
Unfortunately it is not a real discdump. The backup is a copy of the server hd, stored in a folder on a extern RAID called "Systembackup".
(Making a real disk dump would have been the better solution …)
Now the origin server broke down (no way to use any part of it) and i wanted to recover it on my second Mac Mini.
I was trying to rsync -av "backupfolderpath" "new-freshformatted-server-hd".
Unfortunately the server doesn't start.
Is there any way to restore the osx server from this backup-folder?

Much more to do than just rsync.
You used CCC to create the backup?
Then use CCC to restore the backup to a drive.
Choose the folder as a source and a drive as the destination.
CCC supports this. Here's a note from the app on the topic of backup up to a folder.
You restore the contents of the backup folder to the root of another volume in the future, and that volume would be bootable. If your goal is to create a backup that you can boot from right now, you should back up directly to the root of this volume or to the root of another HFS+ formatted volume.

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