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luka70
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Italy
27 Posts
Posted - February 13 2010 :  18:31:07  Show Profile
Is possible at the end of the backup, display a popup on the desktop with success or failure of the backup? Tray bar message is displayed only for a few seconds.
Thanks

Luca

zfactor
New Member

USA
16 Posts
Posted - February 13 2010 :  22:19:14  Show Profile
actually that would be a nice feature especially for say my wife who never would bother to actually check to see if any errors showed up ever till its to late
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Nick
Moderator

United Kingdom
6303 Posts
Posted - February 14 2010 :  09:08:56  Show Profile
Hi

You can add a popup message using VBScript:

After the line:
' Handle backup error
Add:
WScript.Echo("Backup Failed")
After the line:
' Everything OK
Add:
WScript.Echo("Successful Backup")


Hope this helps

Nick - Macrium Support
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luka70
New Member

Italy
27 Posts
Posted - February 14 2010 :  11:07:05  Show Profile
Hi Nick,
your suggestion is perfect!
You are always very polite and efficient.
Thanks

Best Regards

Luca
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Luca
Frequent Poster

Italy
137 Posts
Posted - May 13 2011 :  11:47:32  Show Profile
quote:
Originally posted by Nick

Hi

You can add a popup message using VBScript:

After the line:
' Handle backup error
Add:
WScript.Echo("Backup Failed")
After the line:
' Everything OK
Add:
WScript.Echo("Successful Backup")


Hope this helps

Nick - Macrium Support


Nick,
can you enter a timeout of 10 seconds to popup?
This is possible?

Thanks
Regards

Luca
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alan9182
Advanced Member

United Kingdom
527 Posts
Posted - May 13 2011 :  13:22:59  Show Profile
When I have launched a backup I have far better things to do than sit at the computer waiting for a pop-up that lasts only 10 seconds.

When I have done the better things I want to see the status.

I consider PAUSE awaiting my keyboard entry to be a better solution.

I always follow a backup with a DIR to see how this Incremental compares with the previous.

Thanks for this topic, it has solved my needs.
After Decades of using DOS and BATCH I have just used the Convert XML to Batch option, and simply appended these two lines to the script

DIR "E:\Master Images"\*.mrimg /O:D | FIND "/"
PAUSE


Regards
Alan


O/S: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate *64 SP1
Graphics: HIS ATI Radeon HD 4670 1GB GDDR3
Motherboard: ASUS M3A32-MVP DELUXE AMD 790FX
Processor: AMD Phemom 9500 Quad Core 2206 Mhz
Hard Drive: Samsung HD103SJ, 931GB, MBR, 32MB Cache
Hard Drive: WD Caviar Black, 640GB, GPT, 32MB Cache
RAM: Corsair XMS 6400 4GB (2X2GB) 800mhz
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Luca
Frequent Poster

Italy
137 Posts
Posted - May 13 2011 :  14:13:56  Show Profile
quote:
Originally posted by alan9182

When I have launched a backup I have far better things to do than sit at the computer waiting for a pop-up that lasts only 10 seconds.

When I have done the better things I want to see the status.

I consider PAUSE awaiting my keyboard entry to be a better solution.

I always follow a backup with a DIR to see how this Incremental compares with the previous.

Thanks for this topic, it has solved my needs.
After Decades of using DOS and BATCH I have just used the Convert XML to Batch option, and simply appended these two lines to the script

DIR "E:\Master Images"\*.mrimg /O:D | FIND "/"
PAUSE


Regards
Alan


O/S: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate *64 SP1
Graphics: HIS ATI Radeon HD 4670 1GB GDDR3
Motherboard: ASUS M3A32-MVP DELUXE AMD 790FX
Processor: AMD Phemom 9500 Quad Core 2206 Mhz
Hard Drive: Samsung HD103SJ, 931GB, MBR, 32MB Cache
Hard Drive: WD Caviar Black, 640GB, GPT, 32MB Cache
RAM: Corsair XMS 6400 4GB (2X2GB) 800mhz


Alan,
thanks for your comments, but I would need what I asked.

Regards

Luca
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Nick
Moderator

United Kingdom
6303 Posts
Posted - May 14 2011 :  07:43:18  Show Profile
Hi Luca

I'm afraid this is not possible.

There is a VBScript function WshShell.Popup, but it has a bug and it seems to ignore the timeout.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x83z1d9f(v=vs.85).aspx

Kind Regards

Nick - Macrium Support
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Luca
Frequent Poster

Italy
137 Posts
Posted - May 14 2011 :  08:48:42  Show Profile
quote:
Originally posted by Nick

Hi Luca

I'm afraid this is not possible.

There is a VBScript function WshShell.Popup, but it has a bug and it seems to ignore the timeout.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x83z1d9f(v=vs.85).aspx

Kind Regards

Nick - Macrium Support


Nick,
I found this workaround:

WScript.Echo("Backup Failed")
WScript.Timeout

then we must define the time in the registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Script Host\Settings\Timeout

Regards

Luca
Edited by - Luca on May 14 2011 08:50:00
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Luca
Frequent Poster

Italy
137 Posts
Posted - May 14 2011 :  19:02:27  Show Profile
Eureka!!!
I found the solution.

' Handle backup error 
Dim wshShell, Result
set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Result = WshShell.Popup("Backup Failed", 10, "Information", 64 + 4096)

		objShell.LogEvent 1, "Macrium Reflect - Backup Failed"
	elseif objExecObject.exitcode = 0 then
' Everything OK
set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Result = WshShell.Popup("Successful Backup", 10, "Information", 64 + 4096)

		objShell.LogEvent 0, "Macrium Reflect - Successful Backup"

Regards

Luca
Edited by - Luca on May 16 2011 13:12:56
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