A big thanks to everyone for all the help. I ended up using the command line tool BackupPC_tarCreate. I then copied the large tar file over using ftp and then expanded it. I could not get the direct restore to work from the web interface. For some reason it was slow and would never complete. It would work fine for a few folders but would not do the entire backup at once. I tried letting it run all night. When expanding the tar file I added >>log.txt to the end and then from another command prompt I did a "watch tail log.txt" so that I could see what was going on. I don't think I lost any data. I had to manually create the Junk and Trash mail folders for my users because I exclude them from my backups and my mail program would not create them automatically. I have a little bash script which did this very quickly once I found out it was an issue. I think if I could have temporarily attached my new drive to the backup machine I could have sped things up further but using the tar file and ftp was fairly quick.
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