# How long does rebuilding take?

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**Created:** [June 22, 2016, 2:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-long-does-rebuilding-take/46189 "2016-06-22T14:09:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 10:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-long-does-rebuilding-take/46189/8 "2016-06-22T22:15:13Z")

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It depends on the speed of your network (for downloading the new image) and the speed of your CPU and disk (for the build).

I would say on most average servers it’s about 8 minutes, but on a very fast server it can be as low as 3 minutes.

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