Why is iCloud backup taking so long?

My iPhone 4s on latest iOS prompted me to create a backup as it's been 2 weeks or something. I started the backup 9 hours ago and it still claims it's going to take 4 hours.
Wifi is connected the auto lock is turned off nothing else going.
Any clues as to what's going on?
Cheers
Ed

It's hard to say what's causing. It does sound excessive but backup times depend on how much is being backed up, the upload speed of your internet connection and how busy the servers are. Also, the backup time estimate can at times be way off so it might not take as long as the estimate indicates. After the initial full backup, subsequent backups are much faster as they only back up changed files. This often only takes several minutes or less.

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I need experts support on the below mentioned issue:
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BHDCollections
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
SET ANSI_PADDING ON
GO
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[BHDCollections](
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[BHDShift] [varchar](10) NULL,
[SlipValue] [decimal](18, 3) NOT NULL,
[ProcessedValue] [decimal](18, 3) NOT NULL,
[BHDRemarks] [varchar](500) NULL,
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[Bankabbr] [varchar](50) NULL,
[BankContact] [varchar](50) NULL,
[BankTel] [varchar](25) NULL,
[BankFax] [varchar](25) NULL,
[BankEmail] [varchar](50) NULL,
[BankActive] [bit] NULL,
[Createdby] [varchar](50) NULL,
[Createdon] [datetime] NULL,
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[Currency] [varchar](50) NULL,
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WITH TEMP_TABLE AS
SELECT     0 AS COINS, BHDCollectionsDet.Quantity AS BN, BHDCollections.BHDDate AS CollectionDate, BHDCollectionsDet.Currencyid,
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FROM         BHDCollections INNER JOIN
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SELECT CollectionDate,Bankname,count(DSLIPS) AS DSLIPS,sum(BN) AS BN,sum(COINS) AS coins FROM TEMP_TABLE2 Group By CollectionDate,Bankname
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Without seeing an execution plan of the query it is hard to suggest something useful. Try insert the result of UNION ALL to the temporary table and then perform an aggregation on that table, not a CTE.
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