4.5 hrs iPad 2 still synching/backing up!

Sure taking a long time synch/back up iPad2. It still reports it's on step 1 of 6, so I have no idea how long this will take, even days?
I wish Apple would fix this obvious problem. Meanwhile, what do you do? I'll probably have to cancel in another few hours. I'd feel more secure if I could get it backed up, but I'm subject to Apple's creation.
Any ideas as to possible solutions would be appreciated.
—dan

OK? I had synched the ipad with a usb connection on the back of my Apple monitor. Thought, there could be a problem, because that connection is a little indirect. So decided to use direct usb connection on the computer itself. Noticed it started it's synch on step 2 of 6, and appeared to be going through the steps & finished in about 10 minutes. But....got some error messages. So tried again a couple more times, including restarting itunes.
At step 5 of 5 got these messages: "itunes could not back up the ipad because a session could not be started with ipad." Oh, I see? And: "itunes could not synch information to the ipad because another synch session was already running." OK? Well, there you have it.
This is all beyond me. I guess I'll just hold off for a few days & try again, probably need to restart the computer.
—dan

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