"Backup" is *EXTREMELY* slow (iPhone 3G)...

This slowness DNA is inheritance from infamous apple time machine.

I experience the same slow backup procedure but I don't see the relation to Time Machine.

This has to be a bug, every time I sync my iPhone it does a backup which takes about 20 minutes (I haven't actually timed it, but it takes a loooong time)
I have let it complete once to see if it would do it again, and it did.
I even renamed the backup folder and let iTunes create a brand new one, same problem. I hope Apple will fix this really soon, it's extremely annoying...

yeah its seriously annoying. It hangs and then jumps, hangs and then jumps. It took like 5 minutes to install Flashlight also.

Whats the DEAL

I have 2.3 GB of data (music, contacts and apps) on my iPod Touch 16 GB. iTunes spent more than 3 hours to backup, although I have changed only a few contact data between two syncs.

Mine does that also. It never happened with the old phone. "Backup" takes 10-15 minutes every time I synch. No change after a "restore" and update to 4A347. It's annoying that a synch should take so long.

Bob

Ditto. I am getting 3 + hours to do a simple sync due to the backup. Does Apple monitor these threads? I am also on the "iPhone camera cant store photos thread". My ability to not take photos has followed from my old iPhone to my new 3G. I hope someone is working on these issues!

Scott

I agree. There is something fundamentally wrong with this backup software. First, I believe it is doing a FULL backup when it should be doing an incremental backup. Take 1 FULL backup and then only changes to the IPhone when they occur.

As I speak, I am going on 5 hours for the backup. I admit I only have about 1/2 gig left after programs and music and podcasts r on the phone. But Gee wiz, 5 hours????????

We should at least have the ability to by-pass the backup.

Hey Apple, u DO realize that this is a phone, right? We need to USE the phone. We can't ahve it tied up for 5 hours every time I want to get some podcasts or download a program!


Hey! Is there ANYONE at Apple listening????

I have 8GB of data on my 3G, and my backup only takes one minute. I also run Time Machine every other day with no problems with the Phone, HMmmm.

Yup, same problem here! I have around 12GB of music and stuff on my 3G and it takes approx 20 mins to "backup" every

My 3G iPhone was just fine as far as speed goes with syncing/backing up until this evening. Not only did it take forever to backup, it synced itself 5 times or so during the backup-except it never managed to transfer the newly downloaded applications over to the iPhone. Lovely.

And I think these forums are giving it competition as far as "slow" goes since it took me ten minutes to be able to get to the point where I could write this comment. La. Annoying on two levels.

The problem is with iTunes 7.7. (Which I pretty much figured because both my 1st gen iPhone and my new 3G both had this problem after I updated iTunes.)

It's not that the back ups are large, it's that the data gets sent from the iPhone to the computer at just a couple kbs per second.

Apple is supposedly aware and will hopefully be addressing it soon.

Hey Gang.

We can hang up this one and stop the thread from growing. Per Apple...

This is a documented bug with iTunes 7.7 and filed under Apple Bug ID # 5958064.

So looks like we can bug out on this thread and wait for the Apple engineers to fix it!!! 🙂