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ntbackup & intermittent hard disk failures
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. -- regards, PCC |
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Peter,
"i have a few use case questions that none of the documentation seems to address. Such as, when should I 'replace' vs 'append' a backup?" Well, you use replace when there are files in the backup that you want to update and you use append when you just want to add new files to an existing backup. Regards the problem that your hdd has at this point the iterative process seems to be the only way. You may want to try and search for a tool that can tell you which file is on which part of the disk and accordingly you can separate those that are on the damaged part and first backup the rest. But in the end if you do want any of the files that are left you will have to still do go through an iterative process but this will be a lot quicker. yogi "Peter" wrote: 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. -- regards, PCC |
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Thanks yogi.. a followup.. if I backup one user and then separately backup
each user on the system, while appending to the backup file.. I think this means that upon a single restore operation I should be able to see or expand the backup file, left pane in ntbackup, and restore all users from the same backup file at the same time. Or to put another way, I can chunk the backups by user and append to the to a single backup file yet when restoring see them all contiguously. -- regards, PCC "yogi" wrote: Peter, "i have a few use case questions that none of the documentation seems to address. Such as, when should I 'replace' vs 'append' a backup?" Well, you use replace when there are files in the backup that you want to update and you use append when you just want to add new files to an existing backup. Regards the problem that your hdd has at this point the iterative process seems to be the only way. You may want to try and search for a tool that can tell you which file is on which part of the disk and accordingly you can separate those that are on the damaged part and first backup the rest. But in the end if you do want any of the files that are left you will have to still do go through an iterative process but this will be a lot quicker. yogi "Peter" wrote: 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. -- regards, PCC |
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Peter,
When you create a backup, it is not specific to a user rather it is specific to a computer and if you take a complete backup of the system once that will automatically cover all the other users as well. ~~~ yogi ~~~ "Peter" wrote: Thanks yogi.. a followup.. if I backup one user and then separately backup each user on the system, while appending to the backup file.. I think this means that upon a single restore operation I should be able to see or expand the backup file, left pane in ntbackup, and restore all users from the same backup file at the same time. Or to put another way, I can chunk the backups by user and append to the to a single backup file yet when restoring see them all contiguously. -- regards, PCC "yogi" wrote: Peter, "i have a few use case questions that none of the documentation seems to address. Such as, when should I 'replace' vs 'append' a backup?" Well, you use replace when there are files in the backup that you want to update and you use append when you just want to add new files to an existing backup. Regards the problem that your hdd has at this point the iterative process seems to be the only way. You may want to try and search for a tool that can tell you which file is on which part of the disk and accordingly you can separate those that are on the damaged part and first backup the rest. But in the end if you do want any of the files that are left you will have to still do go through an iterative process but this will be a lot quicker. yogi "Peter" wrote: 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. -- regards, PCC |
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