Time Machine restore is stuck, for external drive

RFeather wrote:

My time machine restore seems to have stalled. How do I get it going again?

Details: My 2T external drive with data failed. So I bought a new external hard drive, and started a Time Machine restore. I had the old failed drive backed up, so I thought no problem. I stared the restore with no issues, 1.19 TB to a new external 2 TB drive. The finder told me it would take about 2 days, and I could watch the progress in the dialogue box saying: "Copying 19,855" items to the new drive. But about an hour in, the dialogue box stoped at "Copying 19,457 items". Five hours later, it is still there. The dialogue box shows no progress. Something has gone wrong.

Can I abort the restore process to start again? If so, how? I tried to restart the powerbook, but I'm told I can't because a function is in progress, and I would have to stop it before I can restart. But how do I stop it?

If I can start over, I would restore just parts of the external drive at a time, and not try the whole 1.2T of data. again Thanks for helping me abort the failed restore of the external disk.

I would use a different backup and compare your results...

If you value your user data

3-2-1 Backup Strategy: three copies of your data, two different methods, and one offsite.

More than one device, more than one backup methodology.

You can always force quit a shutdown by holding the power button/TouchID for ~6-10 sec.

Force Shut down your Mac.

Log out, sleep, wake, restart or shut down your Mac

Shut down or restart your Mac - Apple Support