Time Machine restore stalling on brand new 15" MBP (OS 10.10.1)

Hi,
Just bought a new MBP 15" and thought the migration process would be as easy as it's been for me since the intoduction of Time Machine. However for some unkown reason the Time Machine restore in Migration Assistant is stalling about 60% through,,, (saying 26 mins remaining for hours now).
Has anybody encountered this on new computers running Yosemite? I am restoring from a Time Machine Backup via Thunderwire. Previous computer is in service with Apple, but was running the same version of Yosemite and all.
Thank you in advance for any suggestions!

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One last piece.
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Message was edited by: Dan D\'Errico

Dan D'Errico wrote:
I use Time Machine to backup my data to an external drive. Let's say that my computer crashes and I buy a new computer with Leopard installed.
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Or does Time Machine only work to restore information on a specific computer?
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Pierre G. wrote:
Well I started this backup two hours ago and I indeed observe the backup to progress by jumps. But overall it is really slow, right now it backed up 2Gb out of 88Gb.
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<pre>
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<pre>
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</pre>
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<pre></pre>
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