November 17, 2008, 1:26 am
Toucan is a small freeware that allows us to synchronize, backup and secure your data. The GUI is so simple and divided into seven tabs, allowing us to easily find the function that we need.
There are four synchronization mode for Toucan: copy, update, mirror (copy/update) and equalize.
As for the backup function, Toucan supports complete, update and differential type. The backup file can be in the format of zip or the smaller size 7-zip.
The third feature of Toucan, secure data, use AES-256 encryption via ccrypt. AES is one of the most popular algorithm used in symmetric key cryptography. AES is fast and also require less memory.
As a conclusion, Toucan is not only a good and simple tool for backup and synchronization tasks, but can also encrypt important files and folders.
If you have any other suggestions, please don’t hesitate to leave a comment.
Links:
- Toucan: http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/toucan
- AES: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard
- ccrypt: http://ccrypt.sourceforge.net/
- 7-zip: http://www.7-zip.org/
September 24, 2008, 6:31 am
In the previous article, I had shown you a portable defrag tool, called Defraggler. This article will show another portable defrag tool called JKDefrag.
JKDefrag a freeware by kessels, is a portable disk defragmenter and optimizer for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/X64. It means that you can put it inside floppies, USB disks, memory sticks, and anything else that looks like a disk to Windows.
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April 15, 2008, 6:28 pm
The 7-zip command line can be used to do a multiple folders backup. The good thing with 7-zip is that it support many compression method such as bzip2, gzip, zip and of course 7z.
Here are steps for doing a backup on multiple folders on Windows:
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