Whoa. Time Machine wants HOW LONG to restore?

[Phil A.]

I did a full restore of my system from the installer screen (160GB) in something under 4 hours from a USB 2.0 drive (don't know the exact time as I went out while it was doing it). Definitely sounds like something is forcing 1.1 speeds on your drive there.

 

[thenewguy]

its a MBP - all USB 2.0.

Plus, the transfer rates when TM was doing its original Backup was normal - so this is something specific to the restore process, not the relationship between drive and computer.

 

[Starflyer]

It took SEVEN days to create the world. Whats the problem?

Best post of the day! Haha

 

[FakeWozniak]

Old Thread...

Thought I would add to this thread since I found it via Google.

I was curious WTF is going on with my iMac (2.4GHz Intel Core Duo) and Time Capsule. I am doing a system restore. The iMac drive is 320GB, but only had about 200-250GB of pretty static files (photos, music, emails). It is taking 40 hours to restore. I am 50% done after 20 hours. The Time Capsule is the 1TB model.

The iMac is connected as gigabit ethernet through a gigabit switch to the time capsule (also gigabit, right?). I could have copied a full 1TB in the time that has passed already even though the Time Capsule only has about 300GB used.

I supposed the Time Capsule doesn't want to monopolize the network connection, but WHAT IF I WANT IT TO!

I suspect there is an issue with Time MACHINE because folks using USB 2.0 were also getting these long restore times.

Anyone have new insight to this issue?

 

[krye]

Same thing happened to me. But it was going to take about 8 hours. I said no way. I installed Leopard. Then used the Migration Assistant to more the stuff over from my external drive via FW800. It took like 45 minutes.

 

[Muncher]

A long, low quality cable will eat your bandwidth; how long is the usb cable you're using?

 

[danny_w]

Perhaps a stupid question, but you aren't by any chance using a USB port on an external keyboard or older USB hub are you?

 

[Babooshka]

Apple is better than god

 

[JNB]

SuperDuper FTW on full restores. My TM is only used for recovering from recent, localized problems (Entourage db, iPhoto libraries, dmg's that I accidentally trashed, individual emails, stuff like that). It all goes to a Seagate 500GB--FW only!

 

[tmrt]

I'm connected to my time capsule via ethernet. I started a restore almost 18 hours ago and it still says it has 13 hours to go. crazy!