Toucan

sync, backup and secure, all in one place

Toucan is a custom built portable app for advanced users to synchronise, backup and encrypt their data, wherever they are.

Important Note For 1.1 Upgraders / Blowfish Users: All encryption in Toucan 1.1 used Blowfish. From 1.2 on, Toucan defaults to Rijndael. If you wish to decrypt files encrypted with Toucan 1.1, you must select Blowfish as the decryption routine. The Blowfish method files are encrypted such that the decrypter can not tell if your password is correct, so if you enter an incorrect password it will corrupt your files. Always be sure to back up your data. Rijndael is now the default (and recommended) encryption method as it does not have this issue.

Features

Toucan is a small utility allowing you to synchronise, backup and secure your data with more options than the built in suite utilities. It is split up into 5 tabs, allowing you to easily find the function that you want. This version features:

• Four synchronisation modes, copy, update, mirror and equalise.
• Backup and restore in industry standard zip and 7-zip files, with support for complete backups, updating existing backups and incremental backups, as well as restoring files from an archive.
• Encryption using the ccrypt and BURP algorithms
• Command line support, allows you to create a batch file for repeated jobs
• Portable variables, point to places on you USB drive no matter what its drive letter is

Support

For help getting Toucan up and running, visit Toucan Support:

• Installing Toucan
• Using Toucan
• Upgrading Toucan
• Changing Toucan to Another Language
• Running Toucan on a High DPI Screen
• Known Issues
• Version History

If you can't find the answer to your question just post in the Toucan Support Forum.

Download Details

• File size: 2.1MB (download), ~2.5Mb (installed)
• Publisher: PortableApps.com (Steve Lamerton)
• Date updated: April 11, 2008
• System Requirements: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista
• License: Free / Open Source (GPL)
  
• Source Code: Toucan, 7-Zip, BURP
• MD5 Hash (for the geeks): 4e16affb0dcb294fab24ece543b6fee0
• Downloads: 238,000

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Silvestre Herrera for his wonderful icons, also thanks to the BURP, ccrypt and 7-Zip teams for their wonderful utilities.