How to keep using old Time Machine

Recently, I've reinstalled Mountain Lion because the boot volume suddenly and mysteriously corrupted itself.
I initialized and restored the boot volume from a SuperDuper! backup.
I had to reinitialize the Time Machine volume because once restored, it was convinced that this was an additional volume which needed to backed up and it deleted all its archives and then said it diedn't have enough space to accomodate this new backup.
I then realized that I forgot to include a recovery volume, so I had Carbon Copy Cloner put in a Recovery HD. This changed the size of the boot volume, and again Time Machine was convinced this was a different volume so I had to reinitialize the Time Machine and start that over. This is no big deal except that it blows away your history, and you lose all your old archival data.
Is there a way to convince Time Machine that though the modification date or volume size has changed, it's still the same volume with the same data so I don't have to blow everything away and start over?

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