Should a 5GB back-up take 3 hours to sync to an ipad with Apple Configurator

I'm setting up a cart of 22 iPads for my school.  I created an master and backup using Apple Configurator.  The size of the backup is between 5 and 6GB.  Had no issues creating the backup.  Supervised all the other iPads then began resorting them from the 5GB backup.  I'm on my 3rd hour of syncing.  Should it take this long?

It's quite possible.  I haven't run into your exact situation, but have regularly been syncing about 1 GB to anywhere from 12-60 iPads at a time.  And the major time difference seems to be related more to the amount of data that is being synced instead of how many devices.
With 1 GB it takes me about an hour.  So taking 3+ hours to sync 5 GB to 22 devices sounds reasonable to me.

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