[dnanian]

1. On a slow device (not necessarily a slow *network*, but a slow device), that's not unusual, although not great.

2. Your device -- or network, it's hard to tell -- is running very slowly if things took that long. We can only run as quickly as your device and network let us run.

3. Those are compatibility warnings because the scripting dictionary is compatible all the way back to Jaguar.

I'm sorry that you don't like the fact that I'm pointing out some device slowness given the way things are accessed. If you want to check, it's easy enough to try a similar backup on a local, properly formatted drive and see if it runs as quickly as you'd expect. If it does, the difference is the device and/or network.

As far as "Norton Backups" go - it's a different system, with a different filesystem, different network stacks, accessing the drive in different ways. They can't really be compared.