How do I restore from a backup

I am interested in buying the Airport Time Capsule, on the basis that the backup-restore 'works'.  Thus, I want to understand the step-by-step procedure of what I need to do to restore my machine, which has been corrupted, from the latest backup stored in my 'new' Airport Time Capsule.  My concerns are, Anti-Virus inhibiting this to work, a poor backup (because it states that it backups 'continuously', once you have completed the 'initial' backup) and/or hardware conflict.  Is this idiot proof!!

Read the info about Time Machine from the Guru of all TM.. Pondini.
http://pondini.org/TM/Home.html
Start with how TM does its magic.
Then look at how you backup and restore.. Q14-17 particularly on the later.
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
Then have a look at what goes wrong.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
TM is a very complex piece of software.. so we recommend people have both TM to do incremental backup and a disk image.. which enables you to quickly restore a computer to working condition.. a USB drive setup to boot the computer with a full disk image from a setup of a few months back.. can be restored and quickly updated by TM.

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