how much time to restore 450gb with time machine

My hard drive crashed at the office so I decide to restore my entire system with Time machine (+/- 450GB).

It indicate that it will take 104 hours to restore the complete Hard drive!!!!!!

My question is : IS THAT TRUE!!!???!!! or it can be less?

my backup drive is a WD 500GB USB.

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I don't know about it taking 104 hours to restore 450 GB, but I do know that it will take a considerable amount of time. When I installed Snow Leopard clean I used a Time Machine backup to restore from. It took around 20 minutes to restore 16 GB and that was from a USB 2.0 external drive.

If your backup is on a Firewire capable drive and your Mac has Firewire, restore should be fairly fast.

Regards.

And unlikely that it is going to move 450 GB of data. That would be the total size of your TM backups from the time you started until the last one you made. It will only restore that portion of the data that was on your machine at the restore point you select.

My take is that TC is best for historical record of data changes etc but when it comes to carrying on working with hardware failure, a Bootable copy with SuperDuper [or Carbon Copy Cloner] means little down time and a faster copy to new hardware once u have a replacement.

Agreed. Time Machine is great for people who just need a "set it and forget it" solution. If you want more control and don't mind doing manual full backups, CCC or SuperDuper are a better choice.

i Guys! I think that was my HD that have a problem. I change it and now it indicate that 7 hours will be necessary for the total recovery of my Mac. Will see tomorrow morning if it solve my problem! A big thanks for all your suggestions!... Will give you a follow up!


IT WAS THE HD THAT WAS CORRUPT. TIME MACHINE REBOOT THE NEW HD DURING THE NIGHT AND EVERYTHINGS GOING VERY GOOD NOW.