How Can I Check the Health of the Time Machine Snapshots?

Hi. The last time I used Time Machine to restore to a fresh install of Mountain Lion, it had an error, I had to manually copy the folders and files in my home folder as well as XCode and bookmarks for Safari.
Is there an app that can check if the Time Machine snapshot will work when you need to restore it to a fresh install of Mountain Lion? Could it also check the backup disk for surface errors? My backup drive that uses Time Machine is fine.
Thank you in advance.
God bless.

Unfortunately, you cannot do diagnostics on a Time Capsule. Data on a Time Capsule are not stored directly to the drive. Data are stored in a sparsebundle disk image. If the disk image goes bad, then you can try to copy it to a regular hard drive so you can try repairing the disk image or you erase the Time Capsule.
You really don't need to check hard drives from time to time. If there are errors on the drive you will know about them before you have time to fix the drive. And, if the errors are fixable usually that doesn't happen using Disk Utility.
File errors are very rare no matter how often you use a HDD. There is no research to support your hypothesis.
To protect against hard drive failure (unrelated to file errors) is best avoided by making multiple backups. You cannot have too many backups. Given your concern for your files this will help you a lot more than running diagnostice tests on one hard drive. I would also recommend you not use Time Machine because its reliability is markedly less than most recommended backup utilities such as these. Furthermore, you can clone any drive using Disk Utility's Restore feature.
Suggested Backup Software
  1. Carbon Copy Cloner
  2. Get Backup
  3. Deja Vu
  4. SuperDuper!
  5. Synk Pro
  6. Tri-Backup
Others may be found at VersionTracker or MacUpdate.
Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
  1. Open Disk Utility in the Utilities folder.
  2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
  3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
  4. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag
       it to the Destination entry field.
  5. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to
      the Source entry field.
  6. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the drive used for backup. Source means the drive you are backing up.

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