After system restore TM backup too large to fit on same drive

I just had to get a new hard drive at the Apple store and thus completed a system restore using time machine. My problem now is I am getting errors when TM goes to do a backup (it is saying there is not enough room on the drive). Is there a way to get this backup to fit on my drive without deleting all of my older backups? Thanks for your help.

you can try deleting some of the old backups. to do that start TM and scroll to a backup you want to erase. click on the "gears" action button in finder's toolbar and select "delete backup". Repeat as many times as necessary. However, it sounds like TM wants to do a complete new backup from scratch. that will take as much space as the data you are backing up. depending on how big your TM drive is and how much data you are backing up, this might nor be feasible and you might be better off reformatting the drive and starting the backups over.

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Thank you for your post.
Based on my research, I would like to suggest the following:
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I have 2 macbook pro's (120GB & 160GB) backing up to a 500GB TM.
both were backing up just fine, however in the past month the 160GB
macbook pro keeps getting this message.....
"backup too large for volume?"
and subsequently the backup fails?
the size of the backup is less than the free space on the TM drive...
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dave,
*_Incremental Backups Seem Too Large!_*
Open the Time Machine Prefs on the Mac in question. How much space does it report you have "Available"? When a backup is initiated how much space does it report you need?
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Time Machine performs backups at the file level. If a single bit in a large file is changed, the WHOLE file is backed up again. This is a problem for programs that save data to monolithic virtual disk files that are modified frequently. These include Parallels, VMware Fusion, Aperture vaults, or the databases that Entourage and Thunderbird create. These should be excluded from backup using the Time Machine Preference Exclusion list. You will, however, need to backup these files manually to another external disk.
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