When I run ntbackup on Windows XP Home SP2, it occaisionally finds a file
that has a block on the track and unfortunately after a couple of tries it
stops the backup when it sees and I/O error. I have a hard disk that is
experiening problems. Diagnostics are telling me that I am losing/lost a
track/head. So I wanted to make sure that I have an up to date backup copy to
migrate to a new drive. I would like to see ntbackup continue and get
everything it can off the disk rather than stop without me having to manually
intervene and iterate, deselecting the bad files/dirs each time. Any
suggestions?

Also while on the topic of ntbackup, if have a few use case questions that
none of the documentation seems to address. Such as, when should I 'replace'
vs 'append' a backup? Any suggestions on where to go to get in depth
understanding of the use cases and implications of choices? Most of the
documentation I have found illustrates how to set switches on commands vs why
and the implications of a choice.

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regards,
PCC