Restoring from backup of a disk that started to fail

My main boot drive of my Mac Pro started to fail. The first indication was when I opened an application, the icon was not in the dock, just an empty space. It seemed to be happening more often so I went into target disk mode and attached it to another mac pro. I ran the disk verify and it found errors. Then I tried to repair. The Disk Utility told me to get a new hard drive.
So I got a new hard drive and I'm restoring from my Time Machine backup. It's got another 3 hours to go.
My question is, if the drive was faulty, will my Time Machine put faulty files on this new hard drive. Is there anything that I need to be concerned about. I'd rather do this than try to re-install everything of course. This machine is a workhorse and I have a lot of data and programs on it.
Thanks in advance for the help.

Mr Myth wrote:
...if the drive was faulty, will my Time Machine put faulty files on this new hard drive.
Yes, the drawbacks of TM connected all the time is it will eventually get completely corrupted by a slow ongoing issue as the old gets removed in favor of the new. TM is just a rotating image backup.
If this TM restore is problematic, copy your files off to a data drive, label it and disconnect, then wipe and restore from a earlier TM version and try again, repeat the cycle backwards until your stable, then return the latest copy of your files from the data drive.
If you don't have any stability even from the earliest TM state, then your looking at a complete rebuild, "fresh install" method, do not involve TM in this method.
Make a game plan, make a option bootable clone of the hosed system for backup, label it as fscked up, copy all product serials, setting etc., and just be methodical.
Follow this performance "fresh install" method for hard drives.
1: backup user file folders to data drive. install OS and updated
2: install all programs, working and set up.
3: user files dead last. simply drop the contents right back into their respective users folders (aka Music, Docs, Picture, Movies etc, NOT Library!)
4: use the same user name and hard drive name as the original so files can find other files (pathnames) on your new configuration. iTunes especially.
Once you have a pristine new system, then clone that puppy a few times to seperate hard drives and label and date them, keep one clone updated weekly, another back a month. TM for more current uses as it's always connected.
Some people do this multi-approach as it takes a long time to rebuild with tons of programs and serial #'s to enter and setup, not only that, hard drives die suddenly and TM drives are not bootable, but clones are.
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