Want to move 10.8.1 volume to another disk

I got a faster SATA internal drive for my MacPro and I want to transfer my Mountain Lion volume to it.   Sounds easy, right?
Well, the original volume is protected by File Vault 2 - and that seems to utterly prevent me from using Disk Utility to "Restore" from the original drive onto the new one - which would have been my preferred method.
I always get one of 2 different errors - either "Cannot Verify Source" or "Resource is Busy".    It doesn't matter if I first "Unlock" the source volume or not.
SO - I tried restoring a Time Machine backup onto the new drive.    That worked (though it took over 7 hours) but to my chagrin - it didn't create the recovery partitions for Mountain Lion. ARGH!!
This not only makes recovery mode unavailable, it also prevents my enabling File Vault on the new drive.    Is there any way to establish those partitions without wiping out the drive??
What I hope to avoid at all cost is any scenario where I have to do another 7-hour Time Machine recovery.
For bonus points: I'd also like to make the existing Time Machine history work with the new volume (i.e. convince Time Machine that it isn't necessary to do another 100% backup from the new drive.)
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Use SuperDuper or CarbonCopy Cloner

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Hi Guys,
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Manish Nashikkar wrote:
Hi Guys,
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