Toucan

A couple of small things I noticed on the main app page at https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/toucan. I'm not a drive-by nit-picker, as I have donated to the PortableApps project.

1) "Rijndael" is misspelled

2) "Rijndael" is more commonly known as AES. It might be better to advertise it as such for less technical users.

And I'd like to second the call for rsync capabilities in this program. Possibly including a call out to PuTTY for SSH encrypting the rsync stream.

Apologies if this has already been mentioned on the forums. I had a quick look but didn't find anything.

Is it possible or are there any plans to have the backup create one zip file for each file in a backup set?

I'm a little nervous about having all files go into one huge zip file because if the zip file corrupts then you're basically up a certain creek. To me, if this happens, it sort of defeats the purpose of having a backup in the first place.

Would be great if Toucan also supported sync with a remote machine (via rsync over ssh ideally)..

Have I misunderstood something or is there not support for environment variables in Toucan? This would be greatly appreciated if it is not already supported.

I was encrypting a file, and my firewall logged Toucan accessing my DNS server. Since I have no files on a network drive, why does Toucan need this access?

I love Toucan and use it to encrypt data files on a USB drive I carry on my keychain. I also have a pocketpc (Samsung I760) with a 4G SD card. Most of the Time I change data is with my phone to the data on the SD card of my phone. My USB drive is basically a backup after changes to the phone's data.

Lots of problems with this.
I'm running mirror(update) preview (equalise does the same as output 2). When I do source A dest B, I get the first output. Source B dest A gets the second output. File drums.gif (oops not shown) is overwritten even though it has the same MD5, and the timestamp is only one second off.

Is this a bug? Can I prevent it by checking 'retain attributes'?

output #1
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Starting...

Copied \search.htm

Removed D:\Documents\desktop.ini
Preview Finished...
Finished...

output #2
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Starting...

Overwrote \hobo_signs.pdf

I haven't really used Toucan yet but I had this idea for it a while back.

Would it be possible to set up one job to backup to more than one destination? (external drive and a network drive for example) Seems like it would be great for the excessively cautious.

Hi all,

I get the following error when trying to do an incremental backup of one of my folders. I have also tried Toucan 1.2.2 PR2, but the same thing happens. I have also tried using a newer version of 7-Zip: nothing changes.

Any ideas?

Starting...
7-Zip 4.42 Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Igor Pavlov 2006-05-14

Scanning

Creating archive I:\Backups\PortableApps\2008-04-05-14-36.zip

Error:

System error:
The parameter is incorrect.

I've searched the forum and help files but can't seem to find an answer. Is there a way to sync more than one folder at a time? Steve responded to a post in August 2007 that said to look for it in a future version - not yet?