Time Machine restore failing with error code -43

Question

I have an external hard drive with a 1tb partition that I use for my time machine backups. I am trying to restore my system and I repeatedly get "an error occurred while restoring from the backup time machine...restart"
I tried on several different backups, ranging from a few hours, a few days and a few months. All of them fail with exit code -43. Here is a sample log:
Aug 15 03:21:54 heavenmac OSInstaller[384]: [RESTORE] failed to copy file '/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users', critical, failing.
Aug 15 03:22:04 heavenmac OSInstaller[384]: LSExceptions [0x7fce9c6ca9f0] unloaded
Aug 15 03:22:10 heavenmac OSInstaller[384]: [RESTORE] copying /Volumes/TimeMachine/Backups.backupdb/HeavenMac/2014-08-10-114439/Macintosh HD/Users/.localized to /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users
Aug 15 03:22:10 heavenmac OSInstaller[384]: [RESTORE] failed to copy file '/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/.localized', critical, failing.
Aug 15 03:22:10 heavenmac OSInstaller[384]: [RESTORE] Error enumerating directory: file:///Volumes/TimeMachine/Backups.backupdb/HeavenMac/2014-08-10-114439/Macint osh%20HD/Users/.localized
Aug 15 03:22:10 heavenmac OSInstaller[384]: [RESTORE] _NodeOperation() failed with exit code -43.
Aug 15 03:22:10 heavenmac OSInstaller[384]: [RESTORE] Restore operation was brought down successfully.
I am desperately trying to restore my system. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

A little search found this forum thread.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5976681
It appears that Time Machine needs to have it's preferences reset. Apparently it's lost track of the drive you use for TM and probably set itself to use the new external drive you were working with.