Toucan

I haven made a very simple script in Toucan:

void = sync "jobname"

If i run that script in toucan it works!

Now i make a .bat file with te following:

toucan.exe /s "scriptname"

then i get an error that said:

cannot run lua file [string "scriptname"]:1: '='expected near ''

What is wrong?

I am a new Toucan user (3.0.3) and I would highly appreciate whether an option could built in which allows to show only the files affected by any function (copy, mirror, equalize, move, clean).
This option can be very useful for updates with many and deep sub-directories to check at a glance all files affected by an update. This is especially of paramount importance for files which will be deleted by an operation. E.g. Synchronizer by www.aborange.de has realized such a possibility.
Kind regards,
Christoph

Hi Steve

Nice piece of SW. The LUA scripting seems to be very powerful!

I run into a strange inconsistency though (see following script).


-- Problem using Toucan variable to specifiy path for deletion
-- (copy and rename OK, LUA variable OK)
-- Toucan 3.0.3 Prerelease 2 / Vista 32 SP2

-- Variable backupfolder defined as F:\Toucan_Test\ on Variables tab
copy([[@backupfolder@]] .. [[BaseFile.zip]], [[@backupfolder@]] .. [[BaseFile-1.zip]]) -- OK
rename([[@backupfolder@]].. [[BaseFile-1.zip]], [[@backupfolder@]] .. [[BaseFile-2.zip]]) -- OK


Hi,

sync function does not delete files that should be :

OS is Win XP build 2600 SP3
Toucan is installed on an usb key in .Apps directory

My task is a mirror task with these parameters :

source : @docs@
target @drive@/Documents/
rule : some directories and files excluded

None of the checkboxes are checked (file size, keep date, etc.)

The preview in toucan shows that some files will be deleted.

But : files that should be are not deleted on the target drive (where toucan is installed)

I have just tried Toucan and can't get it to look into sub folders. If I selcet the end folder then it picks up the files to sync but if I select the root folder it doesn't identify the files in sub folders. I can't see an option to fix this so any help appreciated.

thanks

When trying to backup with gzip format, in some (NOT ALL) cases the intermediate basefile gets named as:

'BaseFile.7z .tmp'

Note the space in the middle of '.7z .tmp'

As a result, when it comes time to move the file into the backup folder, Toucan cannot find the file and errors out.

I had several problems with Toucan 3.0.2 running from an USB-stick on WinXP SP3

First I installed 3.0.2 over an older version (don't know which one the old one was, but it was some 2.x) and when I tried to start it nothing would happen at all.

After deleting the toucan directory on stick an reinstalling it worked.

Using the german version of toucan doing a "Sync", "Mirror" would only do a copy, nothing was deleted (there was no previous saved job as I deleted all toucan files on stick). Changing to english cured that problem.

There was a writeup on Toucan in the May 2010 issue of Computeractive (magazine) on page 46 by Sean Parker. It was entitled "Toucan: Keep USB memory key files safe".

The article is online in video tutorial format (mostly reading from the printed article). The online version is entitled "Protect a folder with Toucan".

The website has another writeup in the form of a download recommendation dated June 2, 2010 by Tim Smith and Computeractive.

Hello:
I would like to know if can I make image(like Norton Ghost) to my "C" Disk with Toucan.

Thank you, very much

Caminante

1. I've run version 3.0.2 which still crashes in module msvcr90.dll when I perform a sync with option copy and file check set to short comparison.
2. I've defined multiple file include locations. When one is being modfied and the modification is saved directly, then the others are lost. E.g.
   FilesToInclude=|A.txt|G.txt
   Modifcation on A.txt to A1.txt resulted in
   FilesToInclude=|A1.txt

3. Toucan does not copy a file (sync) even if it's different and green highlighted.
4. The last one is a question: are the file check options OR-ed or AND-ed?