Toucan

You can find changelog details and download link in the Beta forum thread

Steve and John seem to be swamped with other things, so I still don't have permissions to put it into the official repo, but you can just get the .paf file directly and install it by going to Apps->Install New App in the PA main menu.

Feel free to try it out and comment here, or on the bug tracker

Hey all. I've been using Toucan for awhile now and was happy to stumble upon this forum as I'm having an issue I was hoping to get some feedback on.

Backing up a 3 GB folder with video clips to a USB flash drive takes forever. It starts by making a file list, then copies a few files and then stops again and eventually starts copying again. It repeats this process over and over and takes about 30 minutes to finish. I was wondering if this sounds like a normal amount of time for a folder of this size using 7zip and no compression? If not, can anyone recommend some ways to speed it up?

You can find changelog details and download link in the Beta forum thread

Steve and John seem to be really swamped with other things, so I still don't have permissions to put it into an official repos, but you can just get the .paf file directly and install it by going to Apps->Install New App in the PA main menu.

Feel free to try it out and comment here, or on the bug tracker

You can find details and download link in the Beta forum thread

Unfortunately I can't get hold of Steve or John to clarify how can I release it through the normal channel which would enable auto-update, however you can get the .paf file directly and install it by going to Apps->Install New App in the PA main menu.

Feel free to try it out and comment here, or on the bug tracker

Hello everyone,

I'm using Toucan for quite a while and as for many of you it was sad for me to see the announcement about the development hiatus.

But real life has its rights and definite precedence over such non-profit OSS projects, so I absolutely understand that and... in an OSS spirit I want to pick it up and continue developing Toucan!

I'm currently working on finalizing the dev environment setup and I think I'm mostly done. Here's where I'd need your help with testing.

I would like to backup my pictures in a Cloud Storage. I choose toucan because it supports encryption.
The scenario:
I want toucan to run in the backround and if new files arrive in the source folder they should be copied in the destination folder (encrypted). The problem is that I can choose encryption just in the "Backup" tab and I don't find an explanation what "mirror" means in the manual.
Which option do you suggest for this scenario?

-- Win7 / Vista / xp Backup script. Created 2013 06
-- Backup 5 generation's

-- Rotate backup
function rotate (Prefix)
delete (Target .. Prefix .. [[-5.7z]])
rename (Target .. Prefix .. [[-4.7z]], Target .. Prefix .. [[-5.7z]])
rename (Target .. Prefix .. [[-3.7z]], Target .. Prefix .. [[-4.7z]])
rename (Target .. Prefix .. [[-2.7z]], Target .. Prefix .. [[-3.7z]])
rename (Target .. Prefix .. [[.7z]], Target .. Prefix .. [[-2.7z]])
end

--Rooling Multi backup script.
--Get user name
user = os.getenv("USERNAME") --User name

I've selected 3 folders to backup: music(150gb), videos(200gb), and misc(100gb). I tried using 7z on ultra, and the job completed successfully, but only the music folder was backed-up/compressed, and the 7z file was 147gb. The contents of the 7z file was verified by exploring it with 7zip, and by examining the Toucan backup log.

I'm not sure what's going on here, I could sure use some help.

I should also note that the backup/compression took something like 20hrs on an i5-2500k, 8gb ram, Win7 on SSD, backing up from a 2tb hdd to a 500gb external drive.

Do you still use the last version of Toucan which bugs won't get fixed? Or did you move to another program?

I don't manage to find a program that is better than Toucan. They're all either unfriendly or don't handle multiple tasks well. Do you know any?

I have been using the update function in version 2.2.1 for a while now and kept using it even when V3 came out, because v3 the update function was removed. My question is why was it removed and is there a way to use the latest version to do the same as the update.

What I want to do is update the source directory to a destination but only copy the newer files to the destination and not delete anything off the destination. If the files are newer on the destination I don't want the source files to copy. Any idea's.