HT1766 When I was trying to backup my iPad 1 onto iTunes on my PC before I updated to the newest version of IOS, I synced my iPad with iTunes and clicked "Back Up Now" it said "iTunes could not back up the iPad because the back up session failed." what do

I tried it several more times afterwards and it said the same thing. Previously when I was updating my iPod touch to the latest version of IOS I made the mistake of not backing it up before, and lost all my music, books, and apps I had on there, etc. I didn't want to make that same mistake with my iPad, but like I said previously; it's not even letting me back it up, therefore I'm not going to update yet so I don't lose all my data, but if I don't update I can't update a lot of apps on my iPad, and such and overall my iPad just won't be as functional until I update it. So bottom-line, why isn't my iPad backing up, and what can I do to make it back up sucessfuly? Thanks in advance. :)

There are a couple of things that you can try.
1. Quit iTunes, restart or reboot your iPad, restart your computer and then try again.
2. Delete any old backups that you have in iTunes and then try again.
Try no. 1 and see what happens.

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