System restore...I've got a bad feeling about this...

I've downloaded 10.7.2 on my three Macs, an MB Air and a Mac Pro both at home and in the office. The office Pro has seen some significant issues since the update. After the update, my iPhoto was broken--it would not import photos either directly from my camera or image files on my hard drive without crashing. I put iPhoto to the trash and and reinstalled over it but it still wouldn't work. So I went to the app store and bought a new copy (I had a project due that needed iPhoto) and that didn't fix the problem. This morning when I came in my time machine backup had hung and in the Finder I could not see my harddrive. I could see it in disk utility and did a repair but that didn't make it visible in the Finder. So in desperation, I rebooted into the Lion reinstall and selected a full restore from backup. Selected my back up external drive (Drobo) and it started but is taking forever. When it first began is said it would take 99 hours... It's been at it now for almost two hours and the time remaining is down to 45 hours, but it's only restored 4.1% of the files. My hard drive is 2TB but it was a bit less than half full.
WTH? My big fear is that it'll take two days and then tell me I'm screwed...
Surely a 48 hour restore can't be normal, can it?
Rocketman

Hi davidgn
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