Time machine hung?  reboot?

I bought a new 2TB drive and installed it and I am using TM to transfer everything. It took two hours for it to do the back up -then the screen said 'less than a minute' for the last ten hours - transferring files - moving support applications. Is it hung? Should I reboot or leave it? (125g was on it before)

you may have a drive that 'fell asleep' or fell off the channel.
Green 2TB or not?
FW400 or USB or eSATA?
Do you really want to use timemachine? or perhaps CCC and SuperDuper would fit your needs and be better (even if you use TM I'd use something else as well) - not your primary backup method - but maybe to get people that never backed up before to start doing so.
I think TimeMachine does what you are seeing and was very much "1.0" in too many ways.
Leopard TimeMachine
http://www.apple.com/support/timemachine

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