Best way to copy files

Hello all
My department has a shared folder on my Mac. Everyone logs in as a particlar user in order to get read/write access to it. The folder has grown, and I would like to shift it to a new drive. I want to keep permissions, timestamps, and resource forks intact. It would seem my options are as follows:

• use "cp -pPR" to recursively copy the folder, preserving meta information
• use "ditto --rsrc"
• use "rsync -aE" (not sure my version of rsync (2.6.9) supports resource forks)
• create an image of the directory structure using Disk Utility, and restore the image to the new drive <- my favoured option at present
• Am I over-thinking it? Should I just drag the thing across in the Finder?

Thoughts? Recommendations? Many thanks, in advance

Back it up, then restore it to the other drive?

What OS version are you working with?

I'm using Leopard 10.5.8, running on a dual quad-core Mac Pro. Dropping in another drive was the work of an instant, but I want the new directory tree to be as close a replica of the old as possible.

hagfish said:

I'm using Leopard 10.5.8,

Click to expand...

Then you can use Time Machine to make that backup.