How can I see what Time Machine is backing up?

Time Machine is taking 4-hours to do each backup.
Time Machine use to back up every hour, but because it seems to be such a resource hog that I installed Time Machine Editor and have the backup take place once a day at 3 am. It is now 5:49 am and Time Machine is still backing up, and my machine is rendered almost unusable, because Time Machine is running and slowing the machine down.
The only files that I can think of that could be causing this lengthy time for Time Machine to run are three virtual machines (that are in the exclude list).
For the exclude list I used to have the name of the folder, where they reside. Figuring that having a folder name might be a problem, I added the files individually. Checking on the backups, these virtual machines are NOT on the backup, so I doubt that these are causing the lengthy backups.
I believe the solution to this to find someway to be able to see which files are being processed by Time Machine (in real-time).
Where do I go with this? How can I find out why Time Machine is taking so long to do backups?

You might want to give TimeTracker a look to see exactly which files are being backed on each pass.
Allow some time (maybe 5-10 minutes or longer) for the program to fully load. The Finder like interface will allow you to drill down into each backup.

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