Impossible to back up my touch before sync

Hello,
I've an Touch firt generation, and yesterday I installed iPhone OS 3. Now when connecting my Touch, the Back-up that's just before the sync is very long (actually more than 5 hours) and seems to be blocked :-/
Is it normal ??

I do not have restore it ?!? AUtomatically made by iTunes ?
Yesterday, the process of back-up didn't finish after install, so I've stopped it. Today, I've deleted the partial back-up with thre preference panel of iTunes and the rsult is the same. A goo new, the back-up increases slowly (I've found the folder in my library, around 150 Mo now for more than 15000 files) and the progress graph in iTunes is always blocked at the same place ...

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