Could a security update affect how my Time Machine Backup HD operates?

I have a 2010 iMac 27" with Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63). I have a Time Machine External Hard drive backing up my machine. Yesterday, I had a couple of updates, one a security update, the other updating printer software.
At some point yesterday, I began seeing a block pop stating that my time machine was no longer backing up my computer. I opened up Time Machine and the images below show what I saw as I navigated through the screen. Is this a problem with the Apple Security update or the Time Machine? I was not having problems until after the update ran.
Thanks in advance for your responses.

you can clone your TM drive either using the restore function in disk utility or using a 3rd party cloner like [Superduper|http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html] or [CCCloner|http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html]. having redundant backups is not crazy and many people do it. However, instead of backing up your TM drive I would recommend using a different backup solution for your secondary backup. aforementioned Superduper and CCCloner are wonderful backup programs and will give you bootable clones of your system which TM does not.

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etresoft wrote:
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Sorry, but what you're saying is just wrong.
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How come time machine backup keeps failing?

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How retrieve Time Machine purple backups?

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Hello Pondini, I've got the same problem, nearly all dates are purple, older than some days. This moves with the time, some days ago, 25-Dec was available, today it isn't (but 26-Dec is).
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I need some advice. I have a question, which I think is simple, but my situation is a bit complicated, so I am not sure about what to do.
I will try to describe it as simply as possible.
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WhatMeWorry wrote:
I live in Florida in an area with frequent lightning strikes. I've lost a lot of electronics even with surge protection.
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I would like to set up an external hard drive for Time Machine backups but I'm wondering how this will work in my situation. How would a daily or hourly backup work if the computer is only on for 45 minutes?
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Or if I'm ready to shut down the computer and the 2nd hourly backup starts how long does it take to complete?
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If the computer is shut down in the middle of a backup will the backup be corrupted or will Time Machine pick up where it left off at the next start up?
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I am not sure if I am posting this discussion in the correct community, so please move it to the right one in case you need.
Currently I am using a 1TB external hard drive to store all my time machine backups. This drive also contains other information (movies, photos etc). I bought a Western Digital MyBook World Edition II which is a NAS. I want it to move my Time Machine backups to my NAS. How can I do it? Just copy over the backups folder from the external hard drive to the NAS?
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