Toucan

Toucan 3.1

I am hard at work on Toucan 3.1 and thought I would give you all a quick update on what I plan to add for the new version. I will update and expand this when progress is made on each of the sections.

Improved Progress Output

I have created a backup job with the following options (GUI in German):
- Typ: Komplett
- Format: 7-Zip
- Kompressionslevel: Keine (-> none)
- Sonstiges: Passwort, Test After Creation
- no rules
- Backup source is a complete directory on a memory stick
- Backup destination in an existing directory on the computer

As soon as I run this job I get the following output in the progress window:

10:27:21 Toucan 3.0.3
Date: 2010-12-03
Computer Name: ((snip))

Operating System: Windows XP (build 2600, Service Pack 3)
Erstelle Liste der Dateien, dies kann eine Weile dauern.

Hello,
I use Toucan to Sync files from a Server to a local drive.
I can select the source-path e.g. \\Dbserv1\ and the destination-path e.g. Q:\SAVE.

The button Preview works -> no messages.

The Run button creats the following:

13:10:19 Toucan 3.0.4

Computer Name: xxxx
Operating System: Windows XP (build 2600, Service Pack 3)

13:10:19 Could not create :\Dbserv1\
13:10:19 Could not create :\Dbserv1\C_\
13:10:19 Could not create :\Dbserv1\C_\XIFXSAVE\

Elapsed: 00:00:01

I think it'll be much easier for user to just have 2 separate panel, one for displaying all the jobs, one for jobs that will run when execute the script. Then user can just drag and drop or click a button to add the jobs to the script.

Right now, you have to write the script by hand, which is tedious and error prone (typo etc.)

How about it?

PS: One a side note, can you explain how "Short comparison" work compare to "Full comparison"? I noticed that "Short comparison" is much faster than full, but I don't know about its correctness.

OK. I just started with Toucan (3.0.4) so I might not be runnig it right but the behavior is quite strange.
I am trying to syncronize two folders with large number of folders (over 600) each containing 1 to about 20 subfolders. Each subfolder can hold up to 30 or so files.

The following options are selected: Mirror, File Size and Preview Only Changes.

1. When the content of the main folder is loaded into the panels most of the folders do not show the + sign indicating a presence of subfolder(s).

1. Please add tool-tips to show complete field contents (especially on job names) as use long names! Thanks!

2. Please move (promote) "Help" and "About" buttons currently under "Settings" tab to top-level tabs (standard for Windows GUI). (Consider also Help and About are not program Settings.)

I discovered Toucan a while ago and think it’s a great program that is very handy when working on the move.
I’m trying to keep a non zip backup of the entire server with over 150GB of data. I would like to keep a true mirror copy of the files. Any files changed should be moved to an archive location before syncing with the main destination.
It would be good if the archive directory have the same structure as the source to prevent files with the same name overwriting.

Can anyone help me with this script, if it can be done!

Hi,
I am very new to Toucan-Scripting and I can´t figure out, why it is not working.

In detail I try perform several jobs with scripting. The script shall be started from a bat-file.
Everything works fine, if my script looks like this:

--Here starts the LUA-Script
sync([[c:\\temp\\quelle]], [[c:\\temp\\@dayname@]], [[Mirror]])
--...here there are many sync-jobs
--Here ends the LUA-Script

But when I want to add more options, my script wont run at all - I am about do despair!

I have a variable @DroughtOnSac@ with the value Y:\ and another variable @DroughtOnDrive@ with the value @drive@\Documents\\co2 drought

Using sync with mirror or copy (and probably the others too but I haven't checked) I keep getting the error "Failed to copy Y:\\test.txt" for every file that should be sent to the other drive. It looks like it's trying to use "Y:\\" instead of "Y:\". I'm sure this used to work.

Also in playing with this, I've found that a bug in the sync tab.

Hi,

I am running Toucan 3.0.3 on WinXP, SP3. I have administrator rights on the box.

This is something that used to work fine under Toucan 2.x, but hangs "most of the times" now.

I backup the same files to 2 different locations, both on USB drives.

backup type: 7z, complete
source data:
- folder on the C: drive
- folder on the F: drive (USB drive)
destination 1:
- another folder on the F: drive (USB drive)
destination 2:
- folder on the H: drive (USB drive)