Slow back-up on Time Capsule

I have had my iMac since 2009 and the same date for my Time Capsule.  I am a paranoid back-up person, so I back-up to my Time Capsule and I also back-up to an external hard drive via Firewire.  The same amount of back-up material takes about 5 minutes to the external drive via Firewaire and it takes about an hour to the Time Capsule.  The Time Capsule is connected via Ethernet and the Wi-Fi is turned off.  This has always puzzled me as to why the Time Capsule back-up is far slower.  Any thoughts?

You need to differentiate actual speed of file copying to the TC and back again with Time Machine.
Time Machine is a hugely complex piece of software.. and it has a lot of chatter between the computer and the backup.
Please look at how TM works in Pondini's great KB.
http://pondini.org/TM/Home.html
Also load the widget A1 in the troubleshooting so you can easily access the log. Here is a typical operation of backup.
There is loads of extras .. the copying of the few files in the incremental backup is the minor part.
Starting automatic backup
Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://Ray%20H;AUTH=[email protected]/data
Mounted network destination at mount point: /Volumes/data using URL: afp://Ray%20H;AUTH=[email protected]/data
Disk image /Volumes/data/minimeray.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
Using file event preflight for macos
Will copy (3.9 MB) from macos
Found 70 files (3.9 MB) needing backup
2.57 GB required (including padding), 1.13 TB available
Copied 2044 files (27.2 MB) from volume macos.
Using file event preflight for macos
Will copy (392 KB) from macos
Found 22 files (392 KB) needing backup
2.57 GB required (including padding), 1.13 TB available
Copied 1481 files (17.1 MB) from volume macos.
Created new backup: 2015-01-19-082802
Starting post-backup thinning
Deleted /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/minimeray/2015-01-18-080642 (28.5 MB)
Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
Backup completed successfully.
Ejected Time Machine disk image: /Volumes/data/minimeray.sparsebundle
Ejected Time Machine network volume.
To check that the files are transferring at correct speed.. just copy a single very file using finder.. eg around 1GB to the TC and then back again and get the speeds.. you should manage 30-50MB/s .. anything much slower than that should be investigated.
But you need to allow TM as long as it needs.

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