On Sep 29, 2012, at 4:10 AM, Ashley Aitken <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> What is the best way to copy a deep and large folder hierarchy (that may be a 
> backup of a partition, but not the startup partition), which may contain 
> aliases, symbolic links, and all sort of things (but not e.g. OS devices), 
> from within the TM backup to another location and preserve everything 
> including metadata.

Using the Finder or the Time Machine Starfield is the recommended method for 
doing a faithful restore of everything from a Time Machine backup.

- Chris

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