Time machine back up is very slow and now has restarted

Just bought a new 500gb G Drive at the Apple Store to use on my MBP. Got home, connected the drive and launched Time Machine. Said the back would take 10 days . I figured, OK that's slow but at least it will get done. Checked the MBP this AM and now -- after saying there was 2 days left to complete the back up of about 90 gb remaining - it has apparently restarted and now shows only 2gb as backed up.
I ran "sudo tmdiagnose" because I read on one of the other boards here that it would successfully have TM backup at normal speed ... but it did not work.
Help please...

If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Enter the word "Starting" (without the quotes) in the String Matching text field. You should now see log messages with the words "Starting * backup," where * represents any of the words "automatic," "manual," or "standard." Note the timestamp of the last such message. Clear the text field and scroll back in the log to that time. Select the messages timestamped from then until the end of the backup, or the end of the log if that's not clear. Copy them (command-C) to the Clipboard. Paste (command-V) into a reply to this message.
If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don't post many repetitions of the same message.
When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
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