HT201250 Time Machine taking forever...???

I am backing up 230GB from my local drive to a new external drive using Time Machine.  I am now 24hrs into the process and only 25GB along...should it take this long?

You might start with this link:
http://pondini.org/TM/D2.html
and
http://pondini.org/TM/Home.html
Also the other links within these Time Machine general information web sites may shed light on your issue. For instance, you need to format the external backup drive properly, probably not causing your issue, but check this link just in case:
http://pondini.org/TM/5.html
FYI, my Time Machnie backup for ~ 215 GB took 2.5 hours, yours should be similar, so checking through the above links' list of troubleshooting steps might be worthwhile. Mine was via firewire and USB 2.0 might be somewhat slower, up to a factor of x2, but the time you have been waiting seems excessive.
Sep 5 12:53:27 username com.apple.backupd[1029]: Starting standard backup
Sep 5 12:53:27 username com.apple.backupd[1029]: Backing up to: /Volumes/LaCie/Backups.backupdb
Sep 5 12:54:28 username com.apple.backupd[1029]: Backup content size: 242.2 GB excluded items size: 29.7 GB for volume Macintosh HD
Sep 5 12:54:28 username com.apple.backupd[1029]: 255.02 GB required (including padding), 1.82 TB available
Sep 5 12:54:28 username com.apple.backupd[1029]: Waiting for index to be ready (101)
Sep 5 15:11:02 username com.apple.backupd[1029]: Copied 1168316 files (212.4 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Sep 5 15:11:10 username com.apple.backupd[1029]: 10.24 GB required (including padding), 1.60 TB available
Sep 5 15:11:10 username com.apple.backupd[1029]: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
Sep 5 15:23:53 username com.apple.backupd[1029]: Copied 15087 files (14.1 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Sep 5 15:23:54 username com.apple.backupd[1029]: Copying Lion Recovery set
Sep 5 15:24:03 username com.apple.backupd[1029]: Starting post-backup thinning
Sep 5 15:24:03 username com.apple.backupd[1029]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Sep 5 15:24:03 username com.apple.backupd[1029]: Backup completed successfully.

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