Why my computer backup takes forever?

It use to take less than an hour to back up my 27 Go, on the last backup everything went well except that time machine informe me that it had to erase the oldest backup since my unit was full. Now yesterday I started up another backup and after 5 hours there was only 7 Go backed up, I stopped it and then took upon myself to free more space on the unit before starting a new back up session. After more than 12 hours now, the backup is even slower 3.77 Go only???
Have anything like this happen to you before? What should I be looking for to correct this problem?

Have you applied the 10.7.5 Supplemental Update http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1599? That fixes a Time Machine/Spotlight slowdown issue.

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