Definitely not. I don't know if you already took care of the problem, but the best way is to open Disk Utility and restore the TM backup to the drive that wish to move it to. It takes a while, but that's the way to do it.
Thanks for the advice. Time to fess up, I'm an idiot when it comes to Time Machine Backups. Complacency...
I have a G5 that died a while ago. With it I had several external firewire drives that included a 1TB ext USB drive where I kept my TM backups of those FW drives. I decided to move it all over to my MBP (see sig).
Thinking I would start from scratch, I thought I'd start from scratch and moved the old backup to the trash. Hold the giggles until I'm finished.
Then I discovered one of my fire wire drives hooked to another FW drive with a Firewire 6 pin connector was not mounting on my desktop. The other FW drive was connected to an older USB Hub (USB or USB2) to my MBP.
At this point, I tried to take the backup out of the trash to where it originally was located on the TB backup drive (Actually that drive is partitioned into 2 so I'm only working with 500GB. I left it run overnight and woke up in the morning to a message that there was not enough space on the drive. This is where it came from. I have no idea why.
Plan B- Then I tried to move it out of the trash to another FW drive connected through the USB hub and let it go. It's unbelievable, I let it run while it tallied up the files- 16 million+ and 5 hours and counting before I gave up and decided to go to plan C. I'm wondering if the reason it's so slow is that I'm using a FW drive through an old USB hub?
Plan C is to get hold of a Firewire 6pin-9 pin adapter, since I don't have a cable with the required fittings. All of my Firewire drives have either USB or 6 pin connectors. After I get hold of the 6-9pin adapter, I'm going to see if the drive in question will mount when connected via my MBPs 9 pin FW port. If it mounts, then I'm going to take the TB drive, return it to a single partition and start over with my TM backups.
IF the suspect FW drive will not mount, then
Plan D to restore it's data is to try to get the backup out of the trash using a faster connection, Firewire on the MBP or a USB 3.0 hub.
Is there such a thing as a Firewire 9 pin to USB cable? Would that be a good option? Thanks!