Hi, new forum user here. I am using BR 16 to backup a 1 TB SSD Win 8.1 system to an external 5 TB hard disk connected via USB 3.0.
After 14.5 hrs it wasn't finished, so I cancelled it because I needed to shut the system down.

I have used BR 15 free before to backup the same system to the same external drive and it took less than six hours. Still very long, but bearable because that is shorter than a workday.

This morning I started another backup, now without compression. After eight hours the program says it will need another hour and twenty minutes. Seven hours ago it had said it will be finished in 44 minutes. But this happened yesterday, too: The longer the backup process continued, the longer became the announced time to finish it.

Is this a bug? If not, what can I do to fasten the process?