Why, Why, Why does backup and restore take so long?
MacBook Pro 15" Unibody, Matte, Mac OS X (10.5.7), 8 GB RAM
MacBook Pro 15" Unibody, Matte, Mac OS X (10.5.7), 8 GB RAM
ARIII wrote:
I'm no expert but It seems to me that laptop USB cards don't carry enough power or something.
Shredrca wrote:
Since iPad no longer charges using USB connection to PC, I was afraid battery will drain before it completed the backup if at all (major Apple fail, BTW).
It's now morning and the backup status bar on iTunes shows about 40% completed.
Strange though that the iPad battery icon on iTunes shows that it's charging (lightning icon), but the iPad screen battery icon says "Not Charging" yet still has full-battery icon image (not lightning icon). I'll check back on it when I get home from work.
I read somewhere that Console.app and check to see if there are any error messages that could explain this slowness; maybe a rogue app? I'll install it and do the backup again tonight to dig deeper.
I hope Apple is frantically working on releasing the first iPad OS update very soon with some much needed fixes.
Rick Eames wrote:
I love comments like that. "I see no evidence that slow syncs and backups are a common problem. For now, you are going to have to do most of the troubleshooting work yourself. Any logs you can find would be helpful in tracking down your issue and helping anyone else that has a similar issue."
Everyone I know that has an iPad has the slow backup issue, some worse than others.
I have looked the console, I have looked at logs -- I still have no idea why my backups take forever. Other than spending my quality time removing apps one by one to find it (which Apple pays testers for), I have no way of figuring it out.
VerticalHeight wrote:
Just to add additional support to the "slow backup" camp, my backups are extremely slow. If I don't backup for several days it will take hours to backup the changes.
Rick Eames wrote:
etresoft -- you must have no apps installed. Go get ComicZeal4, install some comics, and see what happens. Or GoodReader.
iPad seems to have some issues syncing when apps have data attached to them.
Why, Why, Why does backup and restore take so long?