Time Machine Backup now taking excessive time.

My time machine backup from my 13in MacBook Pro to my 2TB time capsule is now taking an excessive time. I left it on all evening and all night from 6 pm. At 7am it said it has backed up 3 gb of 28 gb.
I ran a verify disk using Disk Utility. It took 6 hours to complete and found no errors.
A time machine backup to a second drive took 6 hours to complete for the first time.
Any clues as to the issue.

Good idea about the file copy. Will get back with further details.
Yes am using Yosemite and yes am connected via Ethernet. Have also turned off wireless on the MacbookPro to ensure traffic is only via Ethernet and shutdown all other programs ie a time machine backup was the only activity. Also ASUS router traffic analyser showed no significant external upload or download activity.
Last backup was about 8 April. For some reason I associate that with a recent update.

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i have two mac minis, one is the mid 2010 model and the the other one is a 2006 model. i have successfuly used superduper to finally move my 500 gigs
of time machine backups to the new time capsule. but the older 2006 model has me lost. i am tempted to go to the applestore to make them copy it
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rigormortis wrote:
if i follow the directions including resetting time machine the best i can get is a pop up box every hour that says the identity of the time capsule cannot
be verified.
Is that the message in #C15 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting? If so, are you selecting Use This Disk? If not, exactly what does it say (or post a screenshot).
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m-avila wrote:
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The problem manifests after a Time Machine backup.
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Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM.
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Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder.”
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I can force eject the volume, then remount the volume and things are back to normal. Same with restarting.
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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4756742
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