Toucan for Windows

User Reviews

• Bad piece of software

  niente000September 19, 2016

  Pros

  Don't know, I unistalled it just after the first crash (happened 10 seconds after launching it)

  Cons

  Tendency to crash, it seems

  Summary

  I launched it, then I enabled "Show details" on options and it suddenly crashed. And I should trust it for my backups? Naaaaa......

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• Great product, easy to use, lots of features!

  Champ729February 1, 2012

  Pros

  great combination of features and simplicity

  Cons

  none so far

  Summary

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• Good for small jobs only

  May 31, 2009

  Pros

  Download was small, install was quick & worked well for small sets of files & has a lot of functions (Sync, scripts, variables, etc..).

  Cons

  Crashed too often to be useful in any serious corporate application. And had limited differential backup functions.

  Summary

  Differential backup currently also supports one source folder. Which ruled it out as a viable tool for our application. There was no information in help file about system requirements. And also no information about how it handles large files (beyond the 4GB FAT limit). Crashed on large sets of files (around 100GB of source files) and while adding folders to the list of files to backup. Here are the details of one of the several crashes encounted, in case the developers are interested. Unhandled exception at 0x005ddfec in Toucan.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000028. (Testing was done on Windows 2003) Some interesting settings like filestreams are in the settings.ini text file rather than the main interface. While the settings tab in the interface is almost empty, except for uninteresting options like the font selection. In all a bit of a shame, definitely has potential if the crash bugs can be fixed.

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• Great piece of software

  shanqApril 29, 2009

  Pros

  Easy to use for anyone, simple interface, fast, no "learning" required

  Cons

  none so far

  Summary

  I have been searching for a good backup/sync software for a while and tried lots of others, but this software clearly stands out amongst them. I think its better than other file backup/sync software (like Synchredible etc...). A very easy to use interface with all the options laid out in the User interface, no need to create scripts, jobs etc., Just specify the two folders you want to sync/backup, select the appropriate action and OK and it does the job for you. The only downside I found out that it only shows file-names while copying/updating and does not show progress bars, not a big deal though.

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