Toucan

A successful restore from backup today following the crash of a USB drive. Here is a description of the process. When I first started with Toucan just a few weeks ago, something of this sort would have been helpful...

Backup regimen:

- Five rotating backups.
- A new backup at the end of each day.
- Backup goes to a second local USB drive.
- Backup is scripted as a BAT file, and is based the script described in the Help file (which would not work in earlier Toucan versions; I would assume that problem has been fixed).
- Not yet using encryption.
- Am passing a password.

I am wondering if there is a way to set a variable in the naming of a file during backup so that the naming of the file gets the current date and puts it in the file name. Example: File_Name_11202009.zip

R/ Bill

Hi,I am not sure whether Toucan can verify the integrity of backup ?
could you kindly instruct the details ?

Thanks a lot.

hi,
thank you for that utility.

I think "DisableStream" setting should be a part of the job setting, not of overall app setting.

The reason is obvious. Sometimes, when I need to sync folder with my mp3 collection, i need the DisableStream set to 1. Othertimes, when I need to sync my working folders with a bunch of text files I need the DisableStream set to 0.

Or is there any workaround?

Thank you.

Hi guys.
these is a totally beginers questions, so please excuse me.
I'm trying to set up toucan to do a sync a week for my pictures music and documents to my external drive.

But I'm only able to select one directory at a time.

how can I achieve a batch job with

d:\pictures
d:\music
d:\documents?

thanks in advance.

I'm a total newbie, but I love Toucan. However, with the new release, I'm having trouble - I have a lot of folders in My Documents, but I only want a few of them on one of my flash drives. I set up the folders to exclude in my Rules (right clicked them from My Documents, in Source). Yes, only the folders I wanted were copied with files in, but all the other excluded folders were copied, although they are empty. How can I show only the desired folder names on my flash drive, rather than having dozens of empty folders? Also, is there some kind of tutorial for using scripts, rules, etc?

1) Go to Sync, hit Add job, enter job name.
2) Choose source and destination directories.
3) Save the job.
4) Close Toucan.
5) Start Toucan again.
6) Go to Sync, select the previously saved job.
7) Expand destination directory -> crash.

Notes:
- source directory is expandable without crash
- Windows XP Prof, SP3
- I had source on HDD, destination on Removable HDD
- Source directory structure:
C:\toucan-test\dir1\1.txt (a zero-size file)

- Destination directory structure:
G:\toucan-test\dir1\1.txt (a zero-size file)

Hi,

Suppose I'm doing a Sync/Equalise. When I hit preview, Toucan highlights files which are about to be copied in blue color. But if such file is inside a directory, the directory is not highlighted. So there is no way to tell by looking at the directory, whether it will contain changes, without expanding the directory.

I'm requesting to add some kind of highlighting or icon change for directories which are not to be copied by themselves, but which contain files/directories which are to be copied. Same thing for files to be deleted.

Regards

Hello my dear friends!!

Im making a mirror of my data partition to an external hard drive!

In my data partition there is a hidden - encrypted - system folder called

$RECYCLE.BIN

Im making a rule to exclude a folder and im adding all the address of that folder

in my case E:\$RECYCLE.BIN

but it doesnt work!

please do i need to set something more??

thanks you very much

Has anyone come across a bug where the program "freezes" when doing a large batch?
I just tried syncing some pictures (~15 GB) from my computer to the portable Tera-byte. Toucan froze at about 85%. I have all my portable apps running on the computer in a sub-folder.