Painfully Slow OS Upgrade

Its been almost more than a hour and the upgrade is still not done. Looks like the backup status bar is moving very slowly.
Anyway to speed this process , I already backed up my phone last night.

I found that deleting stuff off your iPhone and running the update makes it go MUCH faster, after the iPhone is restored, resync it with all of your files.
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