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TIH2013 - Backup found unreadable sectors

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Is there a way to determine which files(s) were affected?  Would be nice to know what data is actually gone, what I need to re-install, or what files to pull off an older backup, as appropriate...

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Kris, welcome to these user forums.

I am not aware of any easy method of identifying what files may be affected by unreadable / bad sectors.  

Perhaps the best method of reducing the impact of this issue is to do a Files & Folders backup of those items which are most important and check carefully for any errors reported in doing this.  You may need to do this type of backup in stages depending on what errors are encountered. 

Thanks for the welcome.

I was hoping to avoid that. Best solution would be for the software to show this info in the log (are you listening, Acronis?)

That source drive is now dead, and I'll be restoring that last backup onto a new SSD in a few days when the new drive arrives.  I intend to keep the older backup a while, so if the operating system identifies an issue, I have a shot at pulling the file out of the older backup. I was just hoping to find something simple I'd overlooked, to pre-empt having to wait for the system to tell me what was hosed.

My IT outlook is rather ... data-protective.  All my computers have 2 HDDs, even the laptops. The first is for operating systems and programs, and is always an SSD, ~200GB (the only exception to this is my AutoCAD/pSpice system, which boots from a 4-drive 670GB SSD RAID 5 array).  The second is a traditional spinning drive, 2-5TB, for "staging" data for immediate/non-networked access.  Long term data storage is on an 80TB 24-drive RAID 6 array, as are the weekly full & daily differential SSD images. A server cron job copies all updated data off each computer's spinning drive each night. Not worried about losing anything but time and serenity.  :)

Kris, the best that the Acronis task log is likely to tell you is the sector number(s) that have been encountered as bad or unreadable - it will not tell you what might have been in the sector(s).  For a Files & Folders backup, you are more likely to have error messages for any unreadable files, but you would potentially get the same from doing a CHKDSK of the drive.  This is complicated with SSD's due to the different methods employed which are meant to automatically reassign any faulting areas found (logical sectors).

Your data-protective regime sounds like your risk of data loss should be minimal assuming that you have regular backup actions for critical data that is changing regularly, so hopefully any losses will be minor if at all.