Toucan 2.2.0 Pre-Release 5

Regarding the mirror sync issues with streams enabled, with this latest build I've found a weird thing:

I have a directory on a network share that I want to sync to two other folders, one is on another network share, and the other in a local drive.

It works fine when syncing from the first network share to the local drive, and it doesn't when syncing to the second network share.

The strange thing is Preview DOES detect and show the files that needs updating between the two network shares, although the job execution itself does nothing.

Thank you Steve for all your work. I will test the new version tomorrow at the office.

Bad news. I have tried the standard sync job I use for testing, and says for all NOT UPDATED files:

- Failed to open X (error 5: acceso denegado)
- Failed to modify file times for X (error 5: acceso denegado)

And for each file that needs syncing:

- Failed to copy the file X to Y (error 5: acceso denegado)
- Fallo al copiar X

Also, as you can see, the reports mix languages.

The worst part is Toucan now fails for all files even with streams disabled.

Preview works fine, as before. I like the idea of highlighting errors in red.

I can't download the new release, Sourceforge says:

The "Toucan_2.2.0_Pre-Release_3.paf.exe" file could not be found or is not available. Please select another file.

Edit: disregard, it works now.

The good news is Toucan has synced all but one of the files it was supposed to sync.

The bad news is the progress windows shows the same two errors for the rest of the files (failed to open, followed by failed to modify file times).

Also, Toucan has been unable to sync one file, an excel spreadsheet, which was open but not locked by the system. (It is a read-only file, so people can open it but the file itself behaves as if nobody opened it).

As an aside, I like that we can resize the progress window (my file paths are pretty long), but given that there are only two columns, ¿wouldn't it be better if the right margin of the column on the right was attached to the window, rather than having to widen the window and then grabbing the column margin and moving it to the right also?. I mean, if it behaved like the leftmost column.

I have a feeling that you are close to finding out what's wrong with the sync mechanism, Steve.

Just downloaded Pre-release 3. Status bar is still out of sync ... Anyone else notice this?
When you do a pre-view or actual sync, is it possible to only show the directory structure of folders that may be impacted?
Example, I have folders 1 through 10. I've updated some files in 2, 7,8, and 10. When I do a preview, it shows folders 1 through 10. Hope this makes sense. I just want to know what folders are being updated and which are being skipped.

I need to re-build my system, so the status bar may be on my end

Testing what J Neutron reported (by the way, thanks for the tip on creating rules via the context menu, I didn't know that), I've also found a couple minor bugs:

1. The rule window doesn't update when you add a new rule to a ruleset the way J Neutron mentions (from the sync window).
2. The rule window doesn't update either when you delete or add a ruleset, leaving the previous rules on the lower part of the window.

The problem with mistakenly excluding all folders seems to be with the number of remaining folders to be backed up.

If there are three folders, you can exclude any one just fine.
If there are three folders, excluding any two excludes all three.
If there are two folders, excluding either one excludes both.

It appears that leaving only one folder is not permitted.

Edit: The above is wrong, sorry. Turns out that if you exclude ANY file in a folder, and that is the last folder in the list (the others are excluded) then it excludes ALL of the files in that folder.

¿Do you think it would be wise to add a "refresh" button to the folder/file lists?. (Or perhaps make Toucan aware of changes to the file system, if that is possible).

While doing tests I find myself many times creating or deleting files, and there is no obvious way to update the window.

Also, I believe an option to export/import settings would be really useful (especially for those of us who are switching versions so often ).

Hi Steve,

Version 2.2.0 Pre-5 still have some mirror issues.

I need to mirror my USB HDD (Vista Business - NTFS) to NAS (FreeNAS) using SAMBA.

When disablestreams are set to 1 it copies all files on every sync. Only when it is using streams (doing crc checks I presume) does it seem to work correctly, except for a very large file (movie clip) which it keeps on insisting has changed.

So either way, it is not ideal as backuping up a single file in a 12GB directory takes hours, not minutes.

I have set all 4 options (retain timestamps, retain attributes, ignore RO, ignore DST) but it thinks it needs to overwrite the files when streams are disabled.

The only difference I can see is that the "accessed" date is newer on the target. the other oddity is that it is a date 2 hours into the future... The time on the NAS seems identical to my notebook. (timezone is set to etc/utc).

Any ideas why this would be?

Regards
Paul

Spanish translation updated to 2.2.0-pre5.

I believe you should announce the new .pot file on the Translating Toucan thread too, it is becoming increasingly difficult to watch this one.

By the way, there's a typo in line 572 of the original .pot ("varaible").

Same here...

I'm using Win firewall, so that is not the issue.

Actually it happens with all of the options:

-Update
-Differential
-Restore

All cause a 'Toucan.exe has stopped working error'

Under the settings tab, have you placed a checkmark on the "Enable Tooltips" item?

No problem, the delay actually allowed me to get back from vacation and update the Spanish translation.

Get well.

Or maybe an option to delete to the recycle bin?

There's already a differential backup feature, did you have something different in mind? I take differential to mean that only the files that have changed get backed up. This already exists.

What I'd like to see that makes differential backup more useful is one archive (zip) per file, rather than all files going to one huge archive. This minimizes the impact of corrupt archives.