It's easy to chain several jobs by running Reflect in console batch-mode:
"reflect -e -w first_job.xml && reflect -e -w second_job.xml && ..."
Each individual call to 'reflect' will block until the job is finished.

But in console mode, no job progress information is displayed.

By starting a job with "wscript my_job.vbs", Reflect will run in GUI mode and show a nice progress bar:
But GUI mode invokations of Reflect can't be chained, because wscript (or ShellExecute, etc. ) don't block until the job is finished.

My request is:
Please add an option to reflect.exe to show job progress (percent) in console batch-mode.
This would be my favorite solution to the problem.

Otherwise, allow chaining jobs that run in GUI mode.

Hi smar

Thanks for posting.

Put each reflect command line in its own command processor (.bat file), alternatively use WScript Run and set bWaitOnReturn to true:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d5fk67ky(v=vs.84).aspx

Kind Regards

Nick

Macrium Support

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Thanks.
In hindsight, the problem was that the auto-generated job VB scripts don't block, because they call 'reflect' in a new elevated WScript.Shell process and then quit immediately.

The solution is to directly call 'reflect' in GUI mode, like
start "" /wait "C:\Program Files\Macrium\Reflect\Reflect.exe" -e -w my_backup.xml
(Alternatives: A custom VB script, CreateProcess, etc.)

Nevertheless, is there any chance to get an (optional) progress indicator for the console version of Reflect?

I just noticed that for imaging jobs the progress is shown in the console, but not for clone jobs.
Could you please add the missing progress indicator for clone jobs?