A couple of nights ago my backup was taking every bit of 3 hours, I started it late in the evening. Short story I read on a support forum, that one of the apps I run Zinio an app for electronic magazines can slow it down. I had about 30 copies of issues of MacWorld and PC World Loaded. I uninstalled Zinio, the back up ran in about 15 minutes, then the new software took another 20 minutes. Last night I added back Zinio and downloaded the most recent copies only of those magazines.
Looks like age is no barrier to the iPad! [This message has been edited by Stephenm52 (edited 11-24-2010).]