Icloud backup taking 30-50 hours? 7.9 gb of storage. why so long, just me?

Since updating yesterday i havent been able to backup to icloud. every time i try it just takes forever and never seems to get anywhere. it starts saying around 30 hours and ive seen it go up past 50 hours remaining. this cant possibly be normal. i purchased the extra 10gb for $20 and cant figure out how to get it to work. any advice would be greatly appreciated!!! thanks

i transferred most videos and a bunch of pics to my computer and deleted them from the phone. After shrinking the backup size considerably i actually got it to work. now when i try and backup it works much much faster because its not trying to do all of it at once. idk if im right in why it works now, but it does. try clearing some of your media to get the initial backup done, then you can always add back anything u want.

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