Time Machine restore crash?

Question

Is there a known issue with SL and the Time Machine restore (or FW 800) by chance?
Symptoms:
While attempting a restore using the SL install disc, the progress bar read-out goes beyond 100% (to 100.6% for example) and the time remaining goes to some rediculous number (17 days, 12 hours...., for example) and does not complete after about 1 hour (normal completion time under Leopard 10.5.8 was about 30 minutes without a single crash or strange read-out).
This has occurred twice since upgrading to SL 10.6 (now at 10.6.2).
I am restoring about 60 GB of data for the system restore.
I am using the same software and hardware as I did with Leopard (Mac Pro - early 2008 and a LaCie 500 GB external drive for TM via FW 800 interface) other than running SL.
I have initiated a clean install in the mean time, so no real rush for a solution, but I am wondering if anyone knows of either a FW 800 issue or a SL TM issue that I should be aware of.
At this time I plan to use Disk Utility to make a clone of the clean install and then just do manual file backups until I can actually trust TM to not crash on restore (I trusted it under Leopard 10.5.8 as much as I trust any backup tool - +insert major grain of salt here+).
Thanks for any insight.
Message was edited by: CorkyO

Answer 1

CorkyO wrote:
Is there a known issue with SL and the Time Machine restore (or FW 800) by chance?
no, there are no known issues of that sort. most likely your backups are corrupted somehow. try repairing the TM disk with disk utility on the install DVD. any errors?
Symptoms:
While attempting a restore using the SL install disc, the progress bar read-out goes beyond 100% (to 100.6% for example) and the time remaining goes to some rediculous number (17 days, 12 hours...., for example) and does not complete after about 1 hour (normal completion time under Leopard 10.5.8 was about 30 minutes without a single crash or strange read-out).
This has occurred twice since upgrading to SL 10.6 (now at 10.6.2).
I am restoring about 60 GB of data for the system restore.
I am using the same software and hardware as I did with Leopard (Mac Pro - early 2008 and a LaCie 500 GB external drive for TM via FW 800 interface) other than running SL.
I have initiated a clean install in the mean time, so no real rush for a solution, but I am wondering if anyone knows of either a FW 800 issue or a SL TM issue that I should be aware of.
At this time I plan to use Disk Utility of clone the clean install and then just do manual file backups until I can actually trust TM to not crash on restore (I trusted it under Leopard 10.5.8 as much as I trust any backup tool - +insert major grain of salt here+).
you don't need to do manual restore. if the full system restore refuses to work you should try using Migration Assistant. after you do an erase and install of SL, on the first reboot you'll get setup assistant which will offer to import your user data and applications from a TM backup. try that. you can also do it later using Migration Assistant located in /Applications/Utilities. only if this doesn't work then you can try manual restore.
Thanks for any insight.