[SLE] copying directories backed up with storeBackup

I was performing some maintenance on our server, and find myself
somewhat stumped. I replaced the HD I used as a backup. It had 10 days
worth of "daily" backups using storeBackup, and used up ~21GB on the
HD. I know it uses hard links and maybe some other 'niceties' to shrink
the size of the backups (like bz2). I just wanted to transfer the
contents of one to the other. I used rsync -avz /mnt/ /data1 (/mnt was
where I mounted the old HD, /data1 is where the backup drive is
mounted.). It backed on days worth, which took about 21GB, and I killed
it when it was maybe halfway through the second days worth as it had
gone to ~25GB. Obviously, I missed something. How could those backups
take 21M on the old drive and a lot more on the one I was copying to.
Is this making any sense to anyone? I thought rsync would make a
"mirror" copy, but obviously not quite. What would copy those
storebackup directories so that they would be the same as before, with
its use of hard links and all (I'm guessing the hard links might be part
of my problem, but I might be way off. I would appreciate any ideas.

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Joe Morris
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