Disk utility can't fix my disk!

I have a MacBook Pro 15" with OS X Mavericks. Latley programs have crashed for no reason, so i checked disk utilities, it found a problem, I turned off my computer, held down cmd + R, and disk utilities can't fix it there either. So I know I have to delete my disk, install OS X again, and all that... I know how to do this, but I don't want to loose all my files and programs (yes, not all of them are downloaded from appstore...). But since it's my startup disk that is broken, I can't start it normally, to take a Time Machine back up.
Is there another way to take a backup without start up normally? Are there some codes in terminal I can use?
Thanks for all answers.

I tried CCC, and this happened... I had it on "Administrators" because I didn't want everyone to log on my comuter..
But since my startup disk is broken, I can't start it and log on and fix it. Is there another way to turn it off?
I used my hostname to remote clone it, would the IP adress have been better?

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