Boy! Time Machine restore takes an age ...

[oldhifi]

My iMac took 8 hours, I set it up at night and went to bed..

 

[maflynn]

My iMac took 8 hours, I set it up at night and went to bed..

Yeah, that's what I did, buy I'm running TM on a NAS which makes it even slower. I use CCC to create a clone, and I'll create a new image about once a month, and all the while, TM is running, so if I needed to restore, I can use CCC for a quick restore and then TM for my documents