Are Time Machine, Mountain Lion and Retina able to work together?

I have been using for a while Time Machines with various Mac's and OS X systems with no problem.
But Time Machine (backing up on a 2TB Time Capsule) + Mountain Lion (10.8.2) + a Retina Mac Book Pro have been not able to appropriately work together for the last 2 months:
- TM displays 'none' for 'Oldest Backup'
- the corresponding-sparse bundle reaches 578 GB
- whereas the present tinner  storage of the Mac is only 200 GB
- TM seems to restart in a given way the full backup every time (2 millions itesm..)
- but it does not take too much time
- and 'entering' in TM displays daily bakcups for the last week, but not beyond (compared to 2 months), and several (hourly-like) backups for the last day
Unfortunately, the recipes given by http://pondini.org/TM/Home.html seem to be inefficient.
Thank you for sharing your experience(s) with this kind of problem and solution(s) is you have !
Regards,

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