Data Loss -- maverick kills mbp17 and related time machine backup

We started several days ago to install Maverick on our MBP17 / 8GB. The installation runs fine and we are excited to use the new maverick OS.
B U T
After reboot the system becomes unusable because all available memory was eaten up by kernel_Task and mds_Stores immidiately.
We contact apple support and the answer was incredible: "You should not use Maverick because it is new and the first version"
End of support. Ticket is still open and no answer is arriving to us.
Unfortnately we need our system for real work and we lost already some days !!!!. So we started a reovery process by our own knowledge.
Now we started to recover our system from Time Machine backup at our OS X Server ML. Things are becoming worse !!!!
First time recovery runs fine ( despite the duration of more than 8 hours ) but system doesn't boot. OOhps !
Second Timme recovery was done using Ethernet and gives us a booting system with Mountain Lion after 7 hour.
But the Time Machine Backups for this MBP17 at our server are no longer Available. Back volume missing, in use or whatever as error message is known to Time Machine.
Two Years of data are gone
Thank you Apple it's worse than your card application and even more worse than windows 8 upgrade process

Try a new post in the 10.5 Time Machine forum.
DALE

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Message was edited by: tgildea

FileVault isn't involved here. Time Machine uses sparsebundles when backing up to a network share on another Mac.
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Message was edited by: tgildea

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