Restore takes a really really long time

Last night I replaced the hard drive in our iMac and started the process of restoring from a Time Machine backup. The restore has been working now for nearly 20 hours and estimates that it will be finished in approximately 52 more.
Is this kind of restore time typical? I'm guessing the 320GB drive that we replaced was at least 75% full.

Wes Plate wrote:
Last night I replaced the hard drive in our iMac and started the process of restoring from a Time Machine backup. The restore has been working now for nearly 20 hours and estimates that it will be finished in approximately 52 more.
Is this kind of restore time typical? I'm guessing the 320GB drive that we replaced was at least 75% full.
First, the estimates are often quite inaccurate. Second, a lot depends on your Mac, the drive, and how they're connected.
If you recall how full your Mac was when you did your first TM backup, and how long it took, you can make a rough estimate. In my experience, a full restore takes roughly 60% as long as a full backup.
That's on a much smaller PPC system, but ought to be roughly similar, percentage-wise.

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