Backup going onto 3 hours now

Doing a simple backup/sync so I can prep myself for the delivery of my iPhone 4, since I haven't done a backup in ages because it always takes half a lifetime just to get through the backup. It looks like it's about 3/4 of the way done (it's just past the ellipses), hopefully it will finish before I go to bed. Doubtful. Why does it take so long to do a simple backup?

I have not had a backup take shorter than an hour going back to my original iPhone. I'd try to do it daily if I could be assured it would indeed take a short amount of time, which I am not confident it will do.
The iPhone is a 16GB and is about half full. The computer is brand new running Windows 7. Occam's razor would tell me it's a problem with the actual backup process itself.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448?viewlocale=en_US

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If you still have the problem after retoring the iPOd to factory defaults/new iPod then The iPod is likely defective and replacement is required. You can make an appoinment at the Genius Bar of an APple store or take it back to BestBuy if within warranty

Fix for Incredibly Long Sync...? Going on 4 hours now...

I hear some of you in here complaining about your 5 minute iPhone sync, or how your backup takes 10 minutes alone. Well... my backup, alone, is going on 4 hours as I write this, AND ITS ONLY HALF WAY!
I have some apps I just purcahsed from the app store from my computer and need them synced over. I backed-up my iPhone last night (around an 8 hour process I guess...) and when I go plugging it in now, it has to have another 8 hour back-up?
*This is a pathetic excuse Apple... I think I'd rather NOT have a back-up if its going to take 8 hours.* On the other hand, I have yet to find a way to skip it, and just sync the few, new apps I've downloaded.
I have to leave in about 3 hours... out of town, and I won't be able to sync my iPhone, and I really need the apps I paid for!
Please, please, please, please, please!! I spend all this money on my iPhone that acts like its got 64K of RAM on it...? I need help, shorting my 8-hour back-up, so I can sync my few apps over!

I am no expert, but none of my syncing/backup has ever taken longer than 10 minutes. Before I bought my 3G, I learned about the 3G by reading this forum. This is probably why I have yet to select Automatically Sync when phone is connected, or ever selected Sync Only Checked Songs and Videos. I was (and still am) nervous about long sync times.
So far, I only select Manually Manage Music and Videos. (I also have MobileMe which auto syncs my calendar, address book, and bookmarks--which by the way is terrific--for me). The capacity of my iphone is 14.64 GB, Audio is at 3.29 GB, Video at 5.34 GB, Photos at 37.5 MB, Other is 224.1 MB, and Free Space is at 5.76 GB. So far I have 5 free apps on my Iphone. All of the music I synch are in Playlists and all of the podcasts I synch are in Playlists. Last night I wanted to add to my Iphone a movie I created in Imovie and had published to Itunes and wanted to add a new app I had downloaded to Itunes. I had checked Manually sync on the first screen. It seems that my Iphone prefers if I sync Music first (that does the Playlists of music and podcasts), sync Videos second, which syncs my selected TV shows and Movies (and seems to also synch my photos). I never sync podcasts (because they are in Music playlists, and don't have any checks in this category). Last I sync apps.
When I select sync Music I get msg "All existing content on the Iphone will be removed and replaced with songs and playlists from your ITunes library." (My tv shows disappeared from my Iphone.) When I select sync Video, I get msg "All existing songs, movies and TV shows on the Iphone will be removed and replaced with TV shows from your Itunes library. (TV shows were put back on my Iphone, and all my playlists of songs and podcasts were still there. Also, received my iMovie). Last I synced Apps and the new app came onto my Iphone. It took less than 10 minutes.
If I am doing something incorrectly, or short changing myself with above process, please let me know. I do only have 5 apps so far and I don't know how many apps you have.

Cannot update to iOS4.... stuck at backup for over 5 hours now.

I've been trying to update my 3G to iOS4 all day now, and its just sitting at the backup screen. I backed it up manually (right-click iPhone, backup) right before this, and it was fine, didn't take longer than usual. Then I told it to update to iOS4. It did the whole 'preparing for backup' thing, then went on to the actual backup. It got to about ~10% of the progress bar, and got stuck there. I left to go do somework and let it sit there and 'backup'. 5 hours later, I got back, and its still at the same ~10% spot. The progress bar does the whole windows scrolling effect so its not frozen.... What's going on??

OK, I had the same issue about it backing up for long time. I cancelled.
I read in one of these posts to back up prior to installing 4.0. Then hit restore. I did that and I now have 4.0 on my phone. But guess what- the restore went to factory defaults. No data, no apps, no photos, no music.
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anna

annadex wrote:
I have tuns of .mp4 clips, converted them to .mov clips... .
How?
easy way:
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(does it play the video?)
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I am backing up my computer to an external hard drive using Time Machine. It has been at 288.91 "used" for a while... should I just let it ride? It's been going for about 7 hours now.

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Fixing the problem.. hmm pondini is the expert.. you should be able to delete the backup of the photos in existing backup.. there are instructions to do it.. but it is a very poor way to do things.
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I have adobe editions 4.0 and I've been trying to get library books on my kobo for over 2 hours! The book goes onto my Kobo fine, but when I try to open in on my kobo it says, "Oops! The document couldn't be opened. It's protected by ADRM and is not curre

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Hi, I have assigned a time capsule as backup. It does a 29GB BU everyday and then goes incremental every hour. Is it normal to BU 29GB when I have hardly changed files.

Hi,
I have assigned a time capsule and a USB harddisk as backup devices.
Usually I keep both the devices disconnected and doa backup every couple of days and usually alternate between the two.
I see that the TM does about 29GB of backup when every I connect either of my devices and then it goes hourly incremental after that.
I thought the TM backups were incremental after the 1st inital full backup.
What can I do to mitigate this.
Thanks
rjcq

rjcq wrote:
I am using Parallels for running Windows 8 mostly for using MS Access 2007, but my daily change of data is not more than 50 MB.
It's my understanding that if the virtual machine files you use are included in what Time Machine is instructed to backup, any change to the content of the VM file is considered to be a change to entire VM file. I use VMware Fusion rather than Parallels and with Fusion, the VM file is actually a folder with a special icon and inside is a collection of component files which actually make up the VM. While only some of them may be affected by using the VM, the entire VM is backed up by Time Machine. Moreover, if the backup is taking place while the VM is in use, TM is capturing the VM in a state of flux so the internal components may not agree (the VM is so big that there might be some minutes between the beginning and end of the backup so both ends don't agree with each other; the short version is the VM may be corrupted). I don't know if Parallels saves its VM's the same way but the time it takes to backup large files shouldn't change so the risk of corruption is still there. I'd suggest that in addition to TM, you should make periodic complete bootable backups on another drive. Apart from a safety net, that also gives you the VM backup.
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HT201269 I'm updating from my iPhone 4 to the iPhone 5 and have been 'restoring' for 2 hours now and the progress bar still states I hae 6 hours remaining. Will it really take this long? How long should a restore take? It's a 32gb device. Thanks.

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I am having this problem. At first with the new iPhone 5, and then with the iPad 2. I am not sure why this is happening.
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Library upgrade going on 18 hours

Beta 4 was unusable to me, probably because I had 50K images. Fine. So I used Beta 3 until it expired, and waited until V1 came out. Then I upgraded to Beta 4, backed it up, and planned to start a new library for V1, plus transfer my Beta 4 data for use as another library for whenever I needed to go back to old work.
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D

Backup going onto 3 hours now

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