I've been backing up my iPad for 41 hours...

No joke.
Trying to get the new OS on my iPad and am in the middle of a monster backup. I don't ever sync with my computer, so this could realistically be the first time in six months. It's taken 41 hours so far and it's about 70% done according to the progress bar.
Any input? Will this only happen this one time? Anything I should do to avoid this problem in the future?
Cross your fingers that I'm backed up by December!!!

Ignore peled000 - just about everything he/she said is incorrect. The backup function does not backup books or music. Nor does it backup Applications.
Have a read of this post;
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2391299&tstart=50
The summary is that you have several troublesome Apps which are clogging up the whole process
Typically these are Vimeo, newpapers, comics, storage devices (Filemagnet) and the connection of network dives to your Mac when backing up.
Forget the current backup and remove all the above type of Apps and keep removing Apps and resyncing until the problem goes away. then you know which App it is - many Apps are not designed to efficiently backed up.

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First: I hope you don't work for Apple as you have some poor communication skills in assistance. That said, I would never in a million years pay you 45 dollars to help me. I think I would sleep with Satan first!!
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