Toucan 2 Pre-Release 6

Well it actually takes a while to stop gawping at the interface
I'll test it when i have some more time (some people have exams you know)

Thanks. How come it is not on the main page then?

Backup issues...

Under the actual Toucan release, I had two backup jobs set up:
- my FireFox "profile" directory
- my Thunderbird "profile" directory.

I figured that consolidating these two jobs into one would work under the Pre-release 2.

It did work, but I ended up with one backup directory called "profile" that was a combination of all the files and subdirs in the FireFox profile AND the Thunderbird profile. This doesn't seem to be too conducive to restoring correctly.

Next item is that I couldn't find the variables for the backup file name, so I tried inserting a "@date@" into the backup filename, just like it would have appeared in the older release version of Toucan. Well, it worked, but it literally made the backup filename be: testing@date@.7z

Next item is that the selected directories in the right window always initially display fully expanded, not how I left them (two lines, nicely collapsed).

Also, the program kept opening up full screen (no matter what I tried to do). I even tried sticking the Height and Width parameters from the release version into the settings.ini file.

Oh, and I know that someone else mentioned the Font button - well, depending on the Font & Size selected, the name of the font exceeds the size of the button, so only a portion of the font name shows on the button.

Jimmy

The download link is spelled wrong and can't be downloaded directly. I got into the files list on the SF site to find the right file to download.

The link here goes to: Toucan_2_PRERELEASE3.paf.exe
The filename on SF is: Toucan_2.0_PRERELEASE3.paf.exe

Here's a working link: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/portableapps/Toucan_2.0_PRERELEASE3.paf...

Jim

No time for a thorough test yet, but PR3 wiped out the Source and Dest fields for all jobs in my existing Jobs.ini. Loading other jobs defined with "Rules=" still shows !user.js (when the field should be empty). Without source and destination directories, I didn't get a chance to verify Preview functionality.

-hea

I spent about five minutes with this version, and pardon me for saying so, but it isn't ready for prime-time.

It installed OK, and started the first time OK (not maximized, thank you).

From that point on, things headed downhill.

1. I created a backup job name, specified some files to backup, and saved the job. Then I quit Toucan and restarted to see if the saved job survived the restart. When Toucan restarts, it puts two overlapping Toucan screens onto my desktop. One is real and one is not. A desktop refresh clears the wrong one off of the screen and makes the real one readable. (I have a screenshot of this, but I don't see how to insert the image into this message.)

2. My backup destination is C:\Documents and Settings\Jim\My Documents\Toucan Backups\RC3FF@date@.7z (although it has changed the display to show the actual translation of @date@ to 2008-06-23). When I hit the OK button (maybe it should be "GO" to signify an ACTION instead of just an approval?) the familiar box opened up and the job started. It failed miserably, with errors scrolling the entire popup that Documents wasn't found, and wasn't found, and on and on. I have a screenshot of this, too, that I can share. What is happening is the long filename issue with console applications. You need to feed 7z the long filename with either quotes around the entire thing, or at least around items that have embedded spaces such as "Documents and Settings" and "My Documents". I'm not sure which will work.

I quit the program, unsure of attempting further testing.

I'm happy to send the screenshots - please tell me how I can get them into a message here or if I have to use standard email.

Jim

Here's what I've found so far in RC4.

1. Double screen still exists on second (and subsequent) program starts. First start is OK. Splash screen is OK every time.

2. Made unintentional mistake by trying to backup my FireFox profile while it was still open. The errors in the progress box weren't pretty. So I closed Firefox and restarted the backup job (as "Complete") figuring that it would over-write the existing incomplete backup, or at least give some kind of Overwrite? choice or understandable warning. The progress box showed "Updating..." with the archive name (so it knew the backup filename already existed) but then failed with "System Error: Not Implemented".

3. OK, so I figured that I needed to restart the backup job (as "Update" instead of "Complete") figuring that this is what the program wanted. The progress box showed "Error: Incorrect wildcard in listfile", and then came to a screeching halt.

Do you want me to send the screenshots?

Jim

The first version at drop.io didn't solve the problem, but this one does. I can see the bad screen flash and then I can see only the correct screen. (The cynic in me says that the problem still exists but that when the good screen completely matches the location of the bad screen, the problem can't be seen anymore.)

Don't know if it is significant, but each time I run the program, Toucan starts in a different place on my screen.

Jim

What the difference is between the types of backup... please correct me if I'm wrong.

Seems to me that "complete" means to snag the files and create the backup archive name as specified, just do it. If the backup archive name already exists, ??? (either overwrite or update or increment the filename)

Update means to expect that the backup archive name exists, and changed/new files will be updated into the existing archive. If the backup archive name doesn't exist, make the archive.

Differential means to make one base version of the backup archive. If the base version already exists, make a new backup of only changed/new files to be used in conjunction with the base version if restore is needed.

(Does this bring back previous questions someone had about differential versus incremental?)

BTW, no matter what I do, choosing "update" will always generate the incorrect wildcard error.

Jim

Backup works as expected.

Update works as expected. Yeah!!!!

Differential ended with error. Here's the last few lines of the progress box:

Error:
move file error
C:\Documents and Settings\Jim\My Documents\Toucan Backups\TBird\BaseFile.7z.tmp
C:\Documents and Settings\Jim\My Documents\Toucan Backups\TBird\tbird-2008-06-26.7z\BaseFile.7z
The system cannot find the path specified.

System error:
Unspecified error

The problem is that instead of appending "BaseFile.7z" onto the end of the backup file name, it is using the backup filename as a directory name (which doesn't exist) and tries to put "BaseFile.7z" into that directory.

If it is any consolation, I just checked Toucan 1.2.2 "Incremental" which is now "Differential", right?

It errors also:

Error:
Can not open file
C:\Documents and Settings\Jim\My Documents\Toucan Backups\TBird\tbird-2008-06-26.7z\BaseFile.7z
The system cannot find the path specified.

Which looks like the same error.

BTW, when I ran 1.2.2 I realized how much I missed the orange border on the top of the active tab. Without that in version 2.0, it is difficult to know which tab you have active.

Jim