BACKUP/iDISC TAKING A REALLY REALLY LONG TIME

Last night I initiated a Personal Data & Settings backup--my iTunes library, iPhotos and emails. This is the first time I've attempted this.
I left it going all night, and today it still appears to be backing up. There's no indication that there's an error or anything wrong. The upload "progress bar"--the blue, horizontal, oscillating barber pole thingy--will slowly fill up, after which it then it reappears empty, to fill up again, over and over.
Is this unusual, or is it normal?

Well, online is the slowest possible way to do it, and it depends on your Internet Service, but Uploads are generally 1/10 to 1/2 Download speed, so it would take about 36 hours to backup 10 GB of data and 18 hours for 5 GB, with a reasonably fast 640K Upload speed.
The only advantage is that you have a remote, reasonably safe backup, but the drawbacks are too great for me, so I use Firewire Drives and...
Get carbon copy cloner to make an exact copy of your old HD to the New one...
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
SuperDuper...
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/
Or the most expensive one & my favorite, Tri-Backup...
http://www.tri-edre.com/english/tribackup.html

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