Lately, when I've tried running the backup function from the PortableApps menu option, it starts running but never completes. I eventually kill the process, which seems to tend to leave some sort of corruption on my flash drive, necessitating the running of chkdsk on the drive to fix any errors.
Platforms: Windows 10 (at home) and Window 7 (at work) - both never complete.
Drive: 64GB Silicon-Power USB3 with about 43GB used.
Backup options: Complete, backup directory on C: drive, 7z format, Show details selected (also fails to complete with Show details deselected).
By never complete, I mean that the backup status window is still displayed at the same level of completion (I'd estimate the green status bar indicates about 80-90%) after the process has been running for 4 hours to as much as 8 hours (8 or greater when I've started the backup to run over night and it is still sitting there at 5:30 AM the next day when I'm ready to pull my drive out of my home computer and take it to work).
Having regular backups is critical I'm sure anyone would agree.
I tried turning off my anti-virus last night and selecting Show details to see if that would provide any helpful information. Not much that I would consider helpful appeared in the details window. The last 2 lines were:
Items to compress: 53589
9 % 2743 + Documents\Health\Conditions\Vi . ision-Today Subliminal Mp3.zip
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