Backup to time capsule very long

I had a backup issue and had to delete the computer sparsebubdle image and backup again. 
Time Capsule is 2T, available 1.60T. I need to backup 950G and it is VERY slow. Is has backed up only 75G in 2 days and it estimates to need 20 more days   Is it a normal spped? If not what should I do?
thanks, Cris

Do you mean the TC (Time Capsule) and not TM (Time Machine)?
When you say the iMac is directly connected to the TC (your TM) do you mean it is phyiscally connected to the iMac by USB or Firewire cable? Or that the iMac is Wired to your internet Router and or Time Capsule by Ethernet cable. Because one it totally different then the other.
At most I get around 85 to 100+ MBs (that is Mega Bytes a Second) going over my Gigabit Ethernet LAN from one computer to another both with FAST drivers in them. When going from one of my computers to another that is older and has slower drivers sometimes I only get 35-50 MBs transfers.
If you take both of those numbers and divide them into your total 950GBs of data the time to transfer all of it would be DAYS if not weeks.
You are backing up 950GBs. That is Nine Hundred Fifty "Billion" Bytes (Nine Hundred Fifty "Thousand" "Million" Bytes) (950000, Million) of data. At any of the normal current transfer rates available to the Home and Small Business market, at a reasonal price, that transfer is goiing to take what you are seeing.
Even if you had a 2 or 3 Terabyte (That is Trillion or 1 thousand Billion) external connected directly to your Mac, even at USB 3 speeds or Thunderbolt speeds, the transfer would take almost as long. If you only had USB 2 speeds it would take longer. So no don't disconnect it just let it run.
But I suggest you go through all the files you have and find some you don't need or that you can off load to an external drives that do not need to be on your internal Mac hard drive. 950GBs of Data is a whole lot of Data.
I've been usiing computers for over 20 years and have most every file I have ever created, and do a lot of photography, along with tons of Work files and don't have near that much data on any of my computers.

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