Okay, I followed your process of removing higher data apps. First off, only 5 or 6 apps were reporting any data at all, I turned those off and left the others alone. The backup went off without a hitch and took roughly half an hour to complete.The formerly data-less apps now suddenly had some when I went and checked and the backup itself was larger than it has been in some time (22g or so). I kept adding more and more of the ones I shut off and kept being able to back up until I hit a snag after adding one that had several hundred more mb's than the rest... the Wikipedia app. I turned the Wikipedia tab to "off" again, and tried to run another back up... hung up once, tried again, went through fine. Now obviously, this may not be the offending app for everyone, but it seems to be the case for me and I would recommend those having the back up issue, if they have that app, try turning it off, or at least aim for the ones that seem drastically larger than the rest. I won't know until when I wake up tomorrow whether or not it solved the automatic backup issue, but I'm at least back on track enough that I can get a backup if needed, and losing a back up on the offending app will not really affect me at all, worst case scenario. Thanks for your help.
