My backup is taking ages. Just a small sliver of a progress bar that's barely moving.
I guess Apple didn't have time to test this part of the iOS 5 update?
Also, there's no reason backing up a device to a local machine should depend on Apple's servers.
it's because with iOS5 you can restore from the iCloud, when you get it working you will understand...I just got mine to work did a clean install and am restoring from MY backup. Hopefully it works
Are you implying that Apple is uploading all of my personal information to their servers as the progress bar says "backing up"?
my error says that "the ipad could not be restored." .... ????
I am getting a message that my iPhone 4 cannot be restored, error 3004. I've tried restarting iTunes, etc... nothing seems to be working. Sometimes it looks like it is restoring, gets about 3/4 done and then the message pops up again.
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If you are on a windows machine you can speed up the back up quite a bit changing process priority to "above normal" on:
AppleMobileBackup.exe
AppleMobileDeviceHelper.exe
AppleMobileDeviceService.exe