Toucan

hey steven,

first i like to thank you for this awesome program.

I like to use the sourcecode to compile a modified version for my needs. My primary goal is hiding some of the tabs and advanced option. I´m going to use the modded version for a part of my thesis in order to get my degree. I hope thats ok for you. No one will ever get this version.

I downloaded the version from your mercurial repository and tried to compile the toucann.cpp with wxdev-cpp (gcc) compiler. failed...

here´s the compiling log:

I'm using Backup mode (archiver 7z, no compression).
I've added 5 directories to backup to the list on the right, say:
c:\dir1
c:\dir2
c:\dir3
c:\dir4
c:\dir5
The first one is 100Gb, the others - 1Gb each.
The resulted file with backup is "d:\backup.7z"

So, how it works when I first time press "Run"?
1. it creates archive based on "c:\dir1", so after several hours we have "d:\backup.7z" file with size of 100Gb.
2. it adds "c:\dir2" to the existing "d:\backup.7z" archive in 2 steps

I'm trying to use the full command line option and failing are there any examples somewhere, of a few working command lines, as I'm mainly doubtful of the syntax.

I'm trying:-
%PROGRAMDIR%\Toucan\App\toucan\Toucan.exe Sync "E:\xxxx\yyyy" "E:\aaaa\yyyyy" Copy ""

and no items are copied (or whatever else I try.
If I create a job using the same paths and
%PROGRAMDIR%\Toucan\App\toucan\Toucan.exe jobname
it works.

Thanks

I've recently discovered Toucan and have to say that I love it! Works exactly as it says on the can, if it came in a can, which it doesn't.

Suggestion: add an option to be able to adjust the level of information displayed in the log. I primarily use Toucan for mirroring my PA suite to my HDD, in case of USB failure. It'd be nice to be able to change the logging level so that it would only show me copy/delete failures, instead of every copy, every delete, etc.

When I build one of my apps, I have to do a lot of copying & pasting of files; this has caused me trouble more than once, so I've decided to do something about it.
Toucan's sync feature would be perfect for this, but I can't figure out how to set a custom string variable (the version of my app, for example "0.25.9.0"). Since the source & destination folders both depend on the app version, that's fairly important for me.

If Toucan can't do that, don't worry about it; I'm just wondering if there's a way to do it.

Thank you!

Need help with rules and settings…

My task was to back up a selection of folders from one hard drive to another. The destination hard drive folder already contained a previous backup and I wanted new files/folders copied to the destination and files/folders no longer part of the source directory removed from the destination.

Settings chosen: Sync; Mirror; Retain Timestamps; Retain Attributes; Ignore Read Only

Questions/Issues:

I am using Toucan 2.2.1 with Win XP
for testing I made a few changes in an excel-file and restored it two minutes later. Obviously Toucan didn't recognise these changes and didn't update the file in the destination folder. None of the functions (update, mirror, equilise) works.
Is there a minimum amount of changes that must be taken?

Dear Toucan author, thank you first of all for the services which Toucan offers. I have a suggestion, because i want to do a certain backup job on a given USB drive, and depending on other peripherics which i may or may not have connected to the computer, the USB drive may be assigned the F, G or H letter. I have named my USB drive ("STICK32GB"), would it be possible in a future version of Toucan to be able to define a backup job destined to a file system specified by its name ?
Thank you
Jean-Marie

Please mention in the help file the defaults for command line mode, and what do they mean.

I'm not sure if the other modes have defaults, but in Sync mode this means "readonly daylightsavings timestamps attributes".

It's especially confusing as the GUI phrases 2 of them in a negative manner ("ignore X").

I have no way to know if, say, "readonly" is compatible to the GUI or does it actually mean DO include read-only files. Maybe it should have been called "no-readonly" and "no-daylightsavings".

I want to exclude the fred directory from a copy, directory is FRED. I tried two different things:

1) On the SYNC tab I right click FRED directory and exclude it by name, I refresh and FRED still appears, same colors as other dierctories

2) I create a rule, folder to exclude, and type FRED as parameter, same behaviour

I am using TOUCAN 2.1.1 and the problem is the same on both VISTA and XP

Thanks for your support