The backup routine provided with the Portable Apps Suite used to work, now it fails just after it starts, and says to 'check your configuration'. Any ideas? The backup path exists.
I do not see where to set any other configuration parameters.
New: Kanri (Oct 9, '24), Platform 29.5.3 (Jun 27, '24)
1,100+ portable packages, 1.1 billion downloads
No Ads November!, Please donate today
Visit the Community page
Join our forums
Subscribe to our email newsletter
Subscribe with RSS
Follow us on Facebook
Follow us on LinkedIn
Follow us on Twitter
Follow us on Mastodon
Follow us on BlueSky
This usually occurs after an av program removes something it shouldn't. (usually 7za.exe) Grab PortableApps Suite Base Edition and install it right over your current copy. You won't lose any data except any changes you made to autorun.inf (will be fixed in an upcoming upgrade process) and a theme (which isn't yet supported).
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
I did that John, first thing, no dice...
What directories are you going from and to? Does the file name already exist? What options (7z vs Zip, etc)?
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
All files on portable drive to S:\PortableAppsBackup
7z
If you're backing up the whole drive, the destination can't be on that same drive.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
The usb portable backup is to the hard drive, not the usb drive. It has always worked in the past, just fails now. It says to check the settings, where do I do that? All the paths are correct.
It is not overwriting an existing backup.
Can you try resetting the options and running a new backup from scratch? Within the directory PortableAppsBackup\Data just rename settings.ini to settings.bak and then run PAB again. It'll come up with the defaults.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
No dice. Despite these few annoyances, Portable Apps is still great, and I wonder how I lived w/o it...
[PortableAppsBackup]
BackupDirectory=DOCUMENTS\PortableAppsBackup
Use7zFormat=0
UseMaxCompression=0
ShowBackupDetails=0
BackupDrive=1
BackupData=0
BackupDocuments=0
I can give you a debug bit that would allow you to see the call to 7za.exe and any error messages it generates if you're up for trying a couple more things. That way we can nail it down and I can get it fixed so it won't happen for anyone else.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
I ran error checking on the usb drive the other day, no issues.
As a last resort, I ran it again this AM, and guess what, cross-linked files.
Once I fixed the errors on the usb drive, the backup runs fine.
I formatted the drive again, reloaded all my software from a good backup, everything runs fine.
Better error messages would be nice, but isn't that always the case...
Thanks for all the help John