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Speed up Backup

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
 
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.
 
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
 
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"?
 
Are you implying that Apple is uploading all of my personal information to their servers as the progress bar says "backing up"?

yes I am, when i got iOS5 installed from a fresh install it gave me the option to restore ofver the air...now how would one have done that if they didnt upload all that info.

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I can confirm that this works.

Backup regularly.

Do a clean install, update to iOS5 and restore to from iTunes and select you backup...takes a little time but finally got it working.
 
Took me about an hour on the dot to download the update but i'm just gonna wait until later tonight until I update phone. Hopefully their servers will be a little less crowded later.
 
it has been saying 86 minutes for just the download for the past 15 mins. Should I try restarting the download?
 
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.

:mad:
 
Hmm well now I'm really confused. iTunes has spent the past 2 hours with a dialogue window claiming that the iPhone has been restoring Music and Videos, but while it was doing that the iPhone itself showed no indication at all that any syncing or restoring was going on. Now that the dialogue window finally completed iTunes then went into a more familiar syncing mode (with the progress bar in the top status bar), and the iPhone had the rotating sync icon next to the wifi symbol. Not sure what has actually been going on over the past two hours?!

Well now the music and videos seem to be back on my iPhone, but still none of my applications. I've now done a restore from the backup I did earlier on before applying iOS 5 but I still don't have any of my apps on the phone?! If I go into the Apps tab of the iPhone screen in iTunes it isn't set to sync them (it was before I applied iOS 5), but if I change that to sync now I suspect it will simply load fresh installs onto my iPhone and won't have any of my saved data.

[Edit: Grrrrrrr!!!! I suspect that at some point in the recent past iTunes has randomly turned off syncing my apps and unfortunately I didn't think to check before I applied the update as I hadn't changed the setting myself :( As a result I appear to have lost all my saved data for each and every app! So pissed off - this is the first iPhone update I have done where I have lost all this sort of stuff, and I was even being very careful to back it all up in the run up to iOS5 launch.]

[Edit 2: Phew! After resyncing my apps back to the iPhone it appears that the saved data was retained somewhere - at least for the apps I was most concerned about!]
 
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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.

:mad:

Same.

Seem's apple's verification servers are hammered and can't process the request to restore - which has now left my iPad unusable at the moment.
 
I thought maybe I had messed up because I updated to iCloud before I downloaded ios5 but now I see I'm getting the same error as everyone else. Hopefully it's just the servers are overloaded. Better luck tomorrow.:p
 
Contacting iPad software update servers

Been stuck here for over an hour, tired for another hour before that. I can't even get through to the servers let alone download this. And this is on my first device. I started the update with my iPad 2 because if something goes wrong, I can live without that for a few days. In light of this, I'm downright afraid to try and update my iPhone 4.:(
 
iTunes is definitely the dog of the universe. I've seen setting on "backing up iPad" for 20 minutes now and it's about at 1/10th progress. :mad:

Who the hell wrote this crap application?
 
My iPad was fully backed up and now the install is backing up again and its taking a very very long time...

I hope its true with iOS 5 we never have to see iTunes again...
 
Took mine 3 hours to do. 32 GB iPad 2 with 3G through AT&T. Working great now though. AirPlay Mirroring is phenomenal.
 
My Ipad 2 keeps trying to verify the ios5 download with apple after it backups and such and i get different errors and one that does not give a code saying it just cant do the backup which is odd as it set to go to my mac mini

Ok i think its working now just a massive hit on the servers at apple
 
took me about 30-35min from download to finishing recopying apps/music
 
lol i know but i think its because the ipad2 is like almost 1gb down load and the ipod touch 3gen is like 6-700 mb download
 
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

I did that and got it said lost contact with network error and it stopped altogether it was on 5 hrs after 3hrs now it is on 40 hrs because I had to start from the beginning.
 
Downloading IOS 5 now and it is estimating 11hours remaining. Wow their servers are hammered!!
 
Downloaded using the links maybe 5mins and no more than 10 mins to install. The sync to restore my apps on it is taking long than the download and install
done, now i gotta debate on this cloud stuff
 
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