I am having to restore my iphone 3gs following updates, now is restoring from back up but how long should this take?

My iphone froze this morning when trying to install updates, I had to restore it to factory settings and then chose to restore it from my back up information. It now shows "Restore in Progress" but nothing else - this has been going for about 80 minutes and I'm not sure if it has frozen again or if it is actually doing anything.
Can anyone please advise?

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