After updating my iPad 3 from iOS 7.0.6 to 7.1 I can't do anything.  It constantly reboots while trying to restore backup.  Epic Fail!

My attempts to update my ipad 3 to IOS 7.1 via iTunes on my Mac Pro has essentially bricked it.  I carefully made a backup before doing the update but its of little use.  The iPad installs the firmware update and reboots and asks about the backup to restore and begins the sync.  But, it reboots about 20 times while trying to restore the beast. 
It is a 64 gb ipad and was pretty full so retrying to restore from backup is taking 6 hours each time.  Maddening!
I've spent months setting it up.  The thought of restoring as NEW is so depressing.
The initial attempt I did over night was just unusable this morning.  I couldn't get past the Apple Logo.  I finally gave up and put it into recovery mode and redid it a second time.  It must have rebooted 20 times while copying all the apps and media back.  It made it but was then useless again after being disconnected from the Mac.
I then tried once again and aborted it after it was rebooting again constantly during the restore from backup. 
It seems to be OK thru the firmware install but it can't seem to use my backup.  I'm going to try and restore as NEW just to see if it will work at all.  At that point maybe I'll try and manually restore the backup so I don't lose all that organization.
Anyone got any better ideas?  I'm refusing to thing about "upgrading" my iphone 5 until I see how this comes out....
goose

Slone,
I finally decided to turn this annoyance into an opportunity.  After a lot of experimenting I found that my iPad was just fine under 7.1 if I simply restored it as new.  I have a lot of time on my hands and I had 1424 apps on my iPad!  This is why every attempt to restore took so long.
I decided to restore as new, spend a day restoring the apps I really used.  Doing so gave me a quick iPad with only bout a quarter of the storage used.
Granted it was a pain in the arse, but I wrote it off as in the old days when you had to do this with windows 95 just to keep a stable system.
I DO have some data in a few files of the now unused backup but a quick google search finds a couple Mac programs out there that will allow you go extract audio recordings, app data files etc. from the backup.  I'll do that someday if I even miss the files I've probably forgotten that are there.
Anyway, there was nothing wrong with my hardware.  I think there were just some troublesome setup items that 7.1 didn't like.  Once set up as new, the ipad was fine.
Good luck!

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