Lion recovery upgrade? Many hours left?

Hi
when i started Itunes on my new mac book air. It requsted that i do a upgrade to Lion recoverysoftware. In total it´s 452,5 MB and it has done 75 MB. Its about 251 hours left on the upgrade. Should it take that long time? can i close the computer?
Kind regards
Susanne

It all depends on how fast your internet connection is. It seems you have a fairly slow internet connection. So yes it can take that long. And NO you should not turn the computer off or let it go to sleep, which it will do all by its self if you don't adjust the sleep settings.

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sudo chmod a+rx /volumes/*
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Copper_Crown wrote:
It appears I have all bars.
I understand you are talking about your WiFi connection bars.
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The OS X Lion installer takes more than 4 GB of space, so it is normal for most Internet connections to take the download more than an hour.
If you want to see the download progress, open the Mac App Store and go to Purchases.
Before upgrading, make a backup of your files with Time Machine and check that your apps are compatible > http://www.roaringapps.com

When I check my iCloud backup it says it has never backed up and when I try to back manually it gives a message of " estimating back up time" and doesn't back up even after having left it for many hours?

When I check my iCloud backup it says it has never backed up and when I try to back manually it gives a message of " estimating back up time" and doesn't back up even after having left it for many hours?

Yes I have tried that last weekend ad this weekend. I have tried wi fi at different times of the day too; in case it is speed issue. I have tried selecting only backing up limited content and not every thing per what other users suggest.
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Appreciate your thoughts
Thanks!!

Lion Recovery from a Remote Time Machine Disk

I maintain the time machine backup for my MBP on a large USB drive hanging off of my Mac Mini. Yesterday I decided to upgrade the internal hard drive on my system to a faster, higher-capacity disk.   I assumed that this would be very straightfoward given I had a complete time machine backup. Time machine has saved my bacon many times. It was slightly trickier than I expected so I am publishing this recipe in the hope that it helps someone else trying to accomplish the same thing.
The instructions below are in the context of a hard drive replacement.   Skip to step 5 if you are just looking for the recovery instructions.
One last caveat, I have not tried this procedure over WIFI. I did my successful restore over a GigE hard line.   It may or may not work over Wifi and I would bet WIFI greatly increases the odds that something unexpected might go wrong and it will probably take many times longer as well.
YMMV. RTFM.   Good Luck.
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     A USB Drive that you don't mind erasing.
     A tiny phillips screwdriver
     A T4 torx driver
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     * download this from apple support http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1433
     * this creates a USB stick that boots up the recover tools.
Step 1: Make sure time machine backup is up to date
Step 2: [paranoid] turn off time machine
Step 3: Cleanly shut down laptop
Step 4: Follow instructions in user manual to replace hard drive
     * you can download your laptop user manual here - http://support.apple.com/manuals/#macbookpro
     * this required a very tiny phillips head screwdriver and also a T4 torx screwdriver/bit
Step 4a: Be prudent: carefully save your old hard drive in case something goes wrong.
Step 5: Make sure laptop is on wall power
Step 6: Boot to recovery USB stick
     * insert the stick, hold down option while booting
Step 7: Select "Restore From Time Machine Backup"
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Step 8: Mount your remote backup
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        mkdir /Volumes/tm
        mount_afp afp://[username]:[password]@[name of host system].local/[name of remote disk] /Volumes/tm
        you need to supply all of the arguments in brackets above
             eg. mount_afp afp://fred:[email protected]/TimeMachine /Volumes/tm
        You can test if this succeeded by running
               ls /Volumes/tm
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        Now attach the sparsebundle that contains your remote system backup.
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Step 10: Select the backup in time ( probably the most recent one from 10 minutes ago! )
Step 11: Select destination disk
Step 12: If your destination disk does not appear, format it with disk utility
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     Give your new drive a super duper clever name and then click Erase
     Quit Disk Utility
      Select your newly formatted and cleverly named root drive
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Quick answers.
1. no
2. yes
3. no
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Since I planned to upgrade the stock disk on my macbook pro I created a USB stick backup of the Lion OS using Lion recovery disk assistant. It built a bootable copy of my Lion OS. I replaced the drive, booted from the USB stick Lion, formatted the new drive with disk utility with one OSX partition, and bunch of Linux partitions for the planned dual/triple/etc. boot. I then used the recovery disk menu to reinstall OSX on the new disk. It took off and started the download just like while booting with R key or from the recovery partition AGAIN!. This is a 2 hour proposition and is totally ridiculous. I need to be able to reinstall without downloading Lion every time. Any ideas on how to stop this new Apple invention from doing this download?

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If you wish to have a true bootable installer flash drive for your system, then here's what is involved. Start by going to this link: Downloading Hardware Specific Lion Installers. Follow the instructions very, very carefully because this can be a bit tricky.
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Make Your Own Lion Installer
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2. Get a USB flash drive that is at least 8 GBs. Prep this flash drive as follows:
Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
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Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
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Drag the InstallESD.dmg disc image file into the Source entry field.
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HT4904 Help. I have an older 20 inch iMac and had Lion running on it but the internal hard drive died. I'm trying to install Lion on an external drive but it doesn't look like Lion Recovery is supported. I have Leopard installed but am stuck.

Hello,
My 20inch iMac's internal drive died and I'm trying to re-install Lion on an external drive. If I could get the Lion DMG file I think I'd be all set but am not sure how to do this. It doesn't look like the Lion Recovery feature is supported in my older iMac. And I have Leopard installed on the external drive but there's no AppStore to download the Lion DMG file.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
-Lee

Without a bootable backup/clone or a Time Machine backup of your previous Snow Leopard installation or a saved copy of Lion's install app, you'll have to upgrade your Leopard volume to Snow Leopard (10.6.6+) so you can waste another hour or more DLing the Lion thing again.

HT1338 Internet lion recovery

Last time i put my question regarding the revery partition. Now i tried internet lion recovery and trying still to download OS X lion. My DSL connection is two MB. After instally recovery software i selected re-install mac os lion. It is veried by apple sever and started downloading but after one or two it is intrupted downloading. I retried multiple time but failed to download OS X lion from internet due to server problem but my intrent was OK. One one week of try i left this method. An other method of lion recovery if available kindly help. Because internet recovery show me downloading hour 12-17 hour but after one to two hour it is intrupted from server. What should i do? Any other method of downloading of OS X Lion then install it. If available kindly help me. And send adress from where i can download it directly and how can i install it.

Are yoyu connecting to the internet by the Wireless connection on your Mac? If you are try connecting the computer to your router with an Ethernet cable. I suspect your wireless connection is the thing that is dropping out.
If that fails also then you will need to take the computer to someplace that has a better internet connection or do as Thomas suggests and by the Apple Lion Install USB thumb drive.
No there are no other methods of downloading Lion. Only through the Lion Recovery HD partition, a thumb drive made from the Lion Recovery HD partition using Lion Recovery Disk Assistant or with the Online Recovery HD system. But all will download Lion from the Apple servers the same way and then install it.

OS X Lion recovery, repeatedly fails to download.

Our Macbook failed to start up after it accidentally ran out of batteries and shut down.
The start up screen never got past the apple logo and spinning pin wheel.
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I checked inside, memory seated all fine and no obvious hard drive noises.
So then I decided to use Lion recovery I had no problem getting it connected to Internet but it just keeps failing to download the OS, it gives an estimate of about 3 (plus) hours (which seems a long time to me!) and seems to stall in the downloading mid way through and gives me a message that it is unable to continue with this download!
I am thinking its either the system is totally corrupted and its even affecting the behaviour during recovery or its the hard drive!
If any one has any ideas I would be greatly appreciative!

A week has gone by now and I have installed Smart Utility and checked the hard drive, the report was "FAILING" so I have upgraded and got a SSD.
I used down loaded Carbon Copy Cloner and tried to clone the existing hard drive on to the new SSD but theold drive had corrupted so much stuff, it was impossable to get a working version going, so I have now installed from an old Time Machine backup on to the new SSD.
All is working well and yes faster too!
If any one stumbles across this post just remember ALWAYS BACKUP !!!!!

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Yesterday, lion stopped booting on my Macbook pro 2011 and since then I have been nothing short of miserable. Google suggested that I should use the Internet Recovery on my Lion but the downloading has been awful! The Internet Recovery showed me 200 hours initially(dial-up?) but then after half an hour came down to 8 hours. A 4gb file normally takes around 4-5 hours on my 2Mb connection so I was satisfied with 8 hours. I left it around at midnight and went to sleep but when I woke up at 6, the progress bar had barely moved and the download time was showing 25 hours, and after some time the downloading restarted and it was again showing me 11 hours. I left it again but after 3 hours the progress bar had barely budged. Then it restarted again. Then finally it downloaded through a professional grade internet connection at my office but that also took around 4 hours. Is there any way to create a bootable lion installer usb to prevent this mess again for a clean install? Where does internet recovery store the Lion installer? I know about Time Machine and i will definitely keep a backup now but can I burn a disc or a usb with the lion installer? I have seen this problem occuring with a guy on these forums who had a 20 Mb connection and still it took him forever to download.

You picked the wrong day to try and install. iOS 5.1 was released yesterday and the Apple servers will be getting hammered as world+dog downloads the update.
You can create bootable installers for Lion; I have both DVD and USB ones. Instructions here:
http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/08/make-a-bootable-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-installer-from -a-usb-flash-drive/
http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/08/create-burn-bootable-mac-os-x-lion-install-disc/
It's also worth creating a Lion Recovery Assistant, in case your HDD hardware dies.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4848
I have the Recovery Assistant and the bootable installer on the same USB and it works well.

How do I return my mid 2011 MacBook Air to Factory Specifications? Can I use the built in Lion recovery and wipe my data from the hard disk by reformatting it?

I want to trade in my old mid 2011 MacBook Air for a new MacBook Pro. After I have transferred my data to the new MacBook Pro, how do I reformat the hard disk to wipe all my data and return it to Factory specifications? Will the built in Lion recovery allow me to do this? I am currently running OS X Yosemite. Has the upgrade to Yosemite damaged or removed the original Lion recovery partition?

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How do I install a Lion Recovery Partition

I recently installed a new Hard Drive in my Early 2011 Macbook Pro, and I was wondering if there was any way I could out the Lion Recovery Partion on it.
Thanks In Advance

CCC Carbon Copy Cloner has a utility called "Disk Center" that is included with CCC that will create a Recovery Partition for you. I understand that CCC is not free, but it does have a free 30 day trial.
The "Disk Center" in CCC Carbon Copy Cloner is not obvious or easy to find, unless you know where to look for it (in the Window menu pulldown)... it's easy to miss. Once you find it in the CCC menu system, it is a quick (<5min) turnkey way to create a Recovery HD Partition on any disk, internal or external.
I thought I should share this, since I burned several hours of pain-staking research and experimentation in search of how to create/re-create a "Recovery HD" Partition for my MacBook Retina Mavericks laptop. My journey was varietal, including:
Successfully using a manual set of instructions with Terminal to execute a multi-step approach that worked ( http://www.macworld.com/article/2056561/how-to-make-a-bootable-mavericks-install -drive.html )
As well as a utility from musings.slivertooth.us that worked for me as advertised. Only problem is that while I appreciate and respect the great utility that guy created, my risk-averse nature prevents me from using a non-commercial utility to muck with the low-level details of my boot drive. Great job, but I prefer CCC since it's backed by a commercial SW company. Here's his great uility, as referenced in Apple discussion threads like this one: ( http://musings.silvertooth.us/2012/03/restoring-a-lost-recovery-partition-in-lio n/ )
Therefore, I was relieved to discover that CCC has a utility specifically designed to do this for me.
FYI: How did I find myself in this position? I lost my Recovery HD partition because I used Super Duper to Clone my HD/SSD, and subsequently restored my MacBook at one point. Super Duper has worked awesomely well for me for several years. It clones HDs/SSDs without a glitch, and makes them bootable automatically. The only gap or lack of function I have discovered is that "Super Duper" does not Clone the "Recovery HD" Partition. CCC Carbon Copy Cloner does. So, while I like Super Duper, I'm switching to CCC Carbon Copy Cloner for my backups from now on.
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