Restore from TM taking forever

I am trying to do a restore on an early 2009 Mac Pro. I took it into Genius Bar and they recommended replacing the hard drive. They then installed ML 10.8.1 and sent the home to restore from Time machine which is 452 gb over USB 2 cable. It has been running two hours and has 73 hours yet to go. Is this typical?

I bought a 64GB iPad 2 today to replace my 64GB iPad 1. I am very frustrated with the 'Restore from backup' process.
It has been over an hour (67 minutes) and it is still saying 'Restoring iPad from Backup...'
'Time Remaining:' got all the way down to 'About 2 minutes' and stayed there for 30 minutes and is now slowly going back up - right now it says 'About 5 minutes.'
Anyone else having this problem?

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I started a restore from iCloud 3 weeks ago. It is still restoring now! I've read that your geographical location from wheree you started the restore, and your Wifi speed can all alter the speed of the restore, but 3 weeks is seeming a long time! Obviously in the meantime I cannot back up anything to iCloud, and I am going on holiday soon and want to do this before I go. Any tips please?
Thanks

Thanks, if I do this, will it not lose what I have previously saved to iCloud? Will everything previously saved or currently trying to be restored not be lost? Can you give me instructions how to do another restore without losing anything please.

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Terminate the process.
Reboot the computer
Try again. you may have to place the iOS device in Recovery Mode to allow the restore

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I am restoring from a clean install via a network drive and it is taking forever. Is it supposed to take this long?

See #29 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions for some rough guidelines.
And be sure you're doing it right -- starting with your Snow Leopard Install disc, per #14 in that same link.

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after instaling windows updates i restored windows and its taking forever right now its at restoring rejistery and its been there for about 3 hours what should i do?
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Yup! it is frozen.
I got the same problem with my system just last week. I tried re-do it a few times, no resolved.
I first tried with SSD, everything went smoothly until I removed the last disc from the PC and the computer started installing all original factory softwares. I left it overnight and even half of a day next day. It kept going....
I decided shut it down and re-do it with a brand new 1TB HDD, it did the same thing...
Then I tried it with another brand new 1.5TB HDD, same thing happened...
I was just about to give up, but I thought I gona give it one time try. This time I got another 320GB HDD.. It did the same.
Then I just remembered I connected all those drives to the SATA slot other than the slot that my old C: drive was connected to.
I reconnected the new 320GB to this old "C:" slot SATA and tried to restore again... guess what? It works...
My problem solved!!!!
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I'm backing up my new iphone 5 from icloud and it's taking forever for my photos to download. It's been going for 4 days. It's downloaded 1400 out of 1900 photos. Am I doing something wrong?

I think you may not using the right technical terms. When backing up to icloud, there is no way you'd get a message saying things will be wiped. This message may be displayed when you are performing a RESTORE from a backup and then trying to cancel it.
If you are doing a restore, then you can reboot and restore again.

I generally back up and restore my iphone every week... and this time i backed it up..and i can see that backup time and file size.. now.. when i try to restore my iphone.. i select the back up and now it is taking forever to restore. help me

i generally back up and restore my phone every week.. just that i dont have any problem with the network issues. !!
today at 00:46 1st june.. i backed up my iphone and it was perfect...
when i try to restore it.. it is taking 15+ hours .. and that time stays like that for almost 3 hours... it does not happen.
i even called the apple help center. and they said me to install as a new device... and when i said what wil happen to my messages.. they say .. they wont stay.. and wil be deleted.. and all my apps i need to download again..
but earlier i din need to do any of it.!!! it worked really fine .!!!
please help me..!!! i got some important details in this back up.... please help me.!!!

Once in a while the restore process seems to mess up. What I don't understand is why you would perform a weekly restore.
At any rate, if you must restore, perform a device reset (settings>general>reset) and then you will have the opportunity to restore from iCloud. Restore a device whenever it no longer works correctly, not just as a matter of maintenance. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

For the first time i want to sync music from the itunes on my desktop to my iPod touch 5th gen. it kept taking forever to back up! is backing up needed? all i wanna do is sync the music

for the first time i want to sync music from the itunes on my desktop to my iPod touch 5th gen. it kept taking forever to back up! is backing up needed? all i wanna do is sync the music and the back up is taking way too long....
i have not yet until now tried to sync music to this ipod touch it always syncs music on to my ipod classic..please please help me! im dying to have music on this ipod touch...

It depends how much you have to backup..
You could also have a problem.
Is any progress showing?
How long as it been backing up?
Any other text in the status bar in addition to saying backing up?

My iphone 4 is taking forever to sync...I let it sync all night and only completed about 1/4 of of the songs downloaded. Apps seem to be fine. I have tried restoring it and that didn't do anything. Can someone please help?

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I updated to ios5 and all seemed fine, later I realised that my music wasnt on the iphone, so pluged back into my computer and it said that the restore of the iphone had not completed successfully (or something along those lines). I went to restore from backup and selected restore from a back up of my iphone. All appeared to be going ok with the time remaining coming down to less that 10 seconds now for the past 11 hours it has been increasing and now the time remaining is about 17 minutes!
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A bit late, but I wonder if a Reset would be enough? Or even just turning it off and back on?
Phil

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It's been stuck on the boot screen for over 2 hours now and I'm really tempted to force shut down the Mac, but I still hear the hard drive being accessed constantly, so it's gotta be doing something. Question is, if I turn it off right now will I have to do the entire restore process over again? I really do not want my computer to be unusable for another 10 hours...

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Hey,
I'm restoring my iPhone, and when I've done the restore, it hangs constantly close to the end of the restore, before it has even let me choose which back up to restore from. Any reason for this, and anyway to sort it?
Thanks

Me as well! Restore taking hours! There is not enough data over this USB connection to take this long. There is nothing in Activity Monitor to give anything away and sadly, no specific log for what is happening. My backup last night took 10 friggin hours! I have alot of apps, but Apple techs out to chime in here and at least not leave us all hanging.
Another frustrated Beta Tester.

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