Full backup not restoring

Hi all I need some help restoring a backup.
My installation messed up on my Hass Pi4 so I ended up having to install a fresh installation.
That installation always goes fine and can load into the basic HA.
I had Google drive backup so I’ve got a few full backups able to use.
I went to restore one of the full backups and start it going but it just hangs and nothing seems to happen, I even left the last one overnight thinking it might just be slow but it doesn’t work.
So I installed a fresh again and choose a partial restore with everything but the OS and that does install but obviously it’s nothing like what I had just the same add-ons etc.
So I thought I’d do another partial restore and selected just the OS and same again it hangs again and nothing loading, do you think it may be because the backup OS is about 2 versions older then the new install ?
Can anyone suggest the easiest way of getting back to where I was, will extracting the files and folders and manually copying and pasting across work or is it more involved then that.
Thanks

Just a thought: when the restore has had a reasonable amount of time to retore, do any of your automations work? Is it maybe that you just can’t see the HA UI?

Hi no nothing was responding at all its strange.
I have finally got back to where i was i partially restored everything but the OS and then extracted the files and folders from the backup and copied them over and it wasn’t far off from normal.
Thanks