Device listing in Time Machine

I have recently upgraded to OS X Yosemite on my 20inch early 2009 2.66Ghz iMac.
When I enter Time Machine my computer is listed under devices with a number in brackets
immediately after its name.
The Time machine appears to be working correctly having completed an hourly backup just a few minutes ago.
Devices showed my computer originally as “name”, but is now showing “name”(7)
Is this an issue that I need to address?

Further to my original post.
Devices is now showing my computer as "name" (2) but I have made no changes to my system since the original post.

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Name : Indigita
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i have an Imac
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I have here Snow Leopard 10.6.1 and bought a time capsule.
I have parallels installed as VM and file fault is activate for my home directory (I'm the only user on the mac book pro).
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TIA
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Idefix6 wrote:
sry, maybe I understood you wrong.
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