I think it really just depends on how much data you are actually backing up.  I 
have a friend who backed up about 300GB of data to Time Machine, and from what 
I vaguely remember her saying, it took somewhere around 5 hours.

Chris.

> On Nov 20, 2015, at 5:54 PM, george b <gbma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Go to where you clicked backup and see if v o tells you it is dimmed
>  
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> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Zoe Fiogkos
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> Subject: should it be taking this long?
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> All most 3 hours ago I clicked menu extras, time machine, back up now.  I 
> have an external drive connected should it be taking this long?  How can I 
> know the progress or time left for the back up to finish?
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