Toucan

With the production release of Toucan and with earlier builds of the pre-release Toucan it was possible to run multiple sessions of Toucan from the command line. This made using the command line really handy for Scheduled Task back ups and syncing of multiple jobs/locations.

However after build 6 of pre-release the ability to run multiple command sessions of Toucan has been restricted. I assume this change was made because of this thread: https://portableapps.com/node/29326

Bugs I recently found:

click rules tab at top of screen

click add (+ at top of screen) when there is nothing defined below

Tucan CRASH

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Can't delete items from Rules if just one side of a line is selected. I have to select (click/hold/drag) type and rule (full line) then click the "-" to remove.

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Hi,
I have just started to use Toucan and when I try to do a 7-zip complete backup with password and test after creation, Toucan hangs after it has created the archive and does not do the test.

I found ( after an hours wait!) that by killing the 7zip process in windows task manager it finished the task with the following text in the end of the progress window:

Compressing Budget\Home_Budget20120501.xlsm
Compressing Budget\MASTER_20120403.xlsm

Everything is Ok

7-Zip 9.17 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-10-04

It appears that the Sync Mirror delete from destination is not working on on the 3.1.0 Pre-Release -- at least on my systems. I have tested using both pre-release build 6 and 11 and get the same results.

Sync Function options:

Mirror

File Checks options:

File size
Modified time
Short Comparison

Other options:

Retain Timestamps
Retain Attributes
Ignore Read-Only
Use Recycle Bin

Source:

C:\Test\a.txt
C:\Test\b.txt

Destination:

E:\Test

On initial first run in my destination location as expected I get both the a.txt and b.txt files.

Hello!

When Sync/Mirroring from a networked drive, files are not fond on the source network drive and thus are deleted on the target drive! Yikes!

This is very bad!

I know I can map a networked drive and then it will work, but that's not the point: If Toucan won't work with a networkwed drive, then selecting networked drives (without mapping) should be disabled (because Toucan will trash target files at an incredibly high speed.)

Cheers,

- jahman.

i am familiar with a problem with syncing that i encountered in syncing i have had to do myself in the past.

Sorry if the answer to this question is already somewhere, but i couldnt find it. I searched for "sync conflict" and "both changed"

Let me give you two related scenarios.

1. file.txt is synced. on local c: disk and a shared backup drive. I and another person are on two different computers. I am editing my local copy, and he is editing the copy on the shared drive. What happens.

Can toucan be setup to automatically run a local file backup but create a historical/archived backup so that I can maintain a weeks worth of backups of a set of files?

I like to keep my portable apps on my PC, as well as on my pendrive.

This way I can use them in day to day work, as well as when I am on the move and don't have my computer with me.

This obviously means I need a robust synch program to keep me up to date.

My problem is this. When I do a mirror synch, Toucan doesn't do a differential mirror - it seems to copy every file overwriting the destination directory. This wastes a lot of time.

I never used Toucan before and after I ran it the first time (to my K: drive) I have a folder K:toucan projects backup with one file in it called BaseFile.7z. In addition, in the root dir I have 4 separate files. BaseFile.7z.tmp, BaseFile.7z.tmp1, BaseFile.zip.tmp, BaseFile.zip.tmp1.
Are these temp files that can safely tossed out?
Thanks

I have read the forums front to back and have not been able to fine a way to create an automated secure backup using toucan. I am very new to LUA and not familiar with the syntax. I am looking to run two fully automated scheduled encrypted backups on opposite days. If anyone can provide some sample scripts or hints that would be awesome.