Toucan

Hi

Toucan has served well in the past and thanks for the update. However probably since this update there is a bug in the Differential Backup. Assuming that the past behavior that changed files are backed up up in an archive named after the date and time is current.

So I haven't found the clear answer in Toucan's documentation (where is it at all? never mind, I understand not all software projects place as much emphasis on their documentation as their code as some) to this functionality. Here's what I'm trying to accomplish: I backup my stuff on two external drives, A and B. I store one of the drives off site, at a friend of family member living separately.

After updating to 3.1.7 Toucan does no longer start. It throws out this message instead:

*** Caught unhandled unknown exception; terminating

I have been using sync for years to copy data off my computer onto an external drive. This worked fine and would copy files over if they were new ore more recently modified at the source (and not change the target in any other way.)

With the update to Toucan 3.1.7 I have a lot of messages indicating my target directories had been removed (which as per help should just not happen in synch mode.)

Bugfix release of Toucan is posted on GitHub: https://github.com/PortableApps/Toucan/releases/tag/3.1.7.1

Two main changes are fix for recursive deletion during sync (GH issue #22: https://github.com/PortableApps/Toucan/issues/22) and 7-Zip update to version 19.00.

Hello,

I am using Toucan on Win7, toucan in german language.
I made some tests to check, if toucan can meet my requirements for backup/mirroring.

I found the following issue:

As i see toucan cant start as service. How i can start it in Windows at startup system? How works tasks in toucan by scheduler, it works from toucan or it place jobs in Windows Scheduler? Does toucan support automaticly sending mail notification after jobs done?

I've dug around in the forums, and this has been a "planned change", as far back as V2.1 beta, but apparently it still hasn't been implemented. It's the only issue I have with using it as "sync" software. Using the Equalize option, if I have folders S and D, with files A and B (in any combination) and then sync, both S and D will have both A and B. Great. HOWEVER, if I delete A from either S or D, then sync again, A is put back in the folder from which it was deleted. How can I make that NOT happen? I want to retain all other behavior of the "Equalise" function.

Hi guys. Is there any possibility to skip compressing already compressed files and just add them to the archive.

For example, I backup a drive that also contains already compressed files/installation files. In my opinion it's time/resource consuming to compress the files that is already been compressed. I want to mask to skip only compressing *.zip files but still add them to the backup file.

Thanks in advance.

I've just posted the 3.1.6 on GitHub for those who want to jump onto the new version right away.

https://github.com/PortableApps/Toucan/releases/tag/3.1.6

There is a couple of bugfixes, 7-Zip version update and "Do Not Log Skipped Files" option for Sync (as requested on the forum earlier) in the box. I'll give it a week and change the status to "Release".