Lost all my backups and TM will not backup.

I lost all my backups today. I have MacPro with data totalling about 900GB plus a laptop with 170GB on it backing up to a 1.5TB drive. There was about 2 months of backups so I had about 200 GB free on the TM drive. There is no issue with the laptop backup. All references from now are to the MacPro. I was using iMovie yesterday and converted a largish movie for speed adjustment. I noticed my available space on TM had dropped to about 100GB but didn't worry about it as I suspected there were some temp files or something from iMovie that were responsible and I would track them down later. Today I tried to convert a similar size movie and left it running while I was gone. When I came back TM said backup failed and TM widget said this......
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb
Starting pre-backup thinning: 122.99 GB requested (including padding), 31.32 GB available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-09-08-142131: 32.72 GB now available
Removed all 1 expired backups, more space is needed - deleting oldest backups to make room
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-07-27-134059: 49.30 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-08-03-000551: 51.51 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-08-10-001020: 52.25 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-08-11-001022: 55.25 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-08-12-003725: 55.86 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-08-13-003730: 55.89 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-08-14-003817: 63.68 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-08-15-003735: 63.72 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-08-16-003739: 64.34 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-08-17-003743: 65.81 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-08-18-005504: 65.86 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-08-19-005508: 66.45 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-08-20-005628: 69.19 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-08-21-005514: 69.43 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-08-22-002552: 69.46 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-08-23-002555: 71.08 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-08-24-001415: 71.61 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-08-25-001418: 74.50 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-08-26-002111: 88.49 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Pony’s Mac Pro/2009-08-27-000651: 89.29 GB now available
Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Mach
I tried "Backup Now" and it failed. TM widget said this.........
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb
Starting pre-backup thinning: 197.53 GB requested (including padding), 59.88 GB available
No expired backups exist - deleting oldest backups to make room
Error: backup disk is full - all 0 possible backups were removed, but space is still needed.
Backup Failed: unable to free 197.53 GB needed space
Backup failed with error: Not enough available disk space on the target volume.
Stopping backupd to allow ejection of backup destination disk!
Now I only have the current backup and 1 earlier. I deleted from iMovie the offending movies and moved them to another unbacked up disc. I also removed all backups relating to the movies in TM.
TM now says I only have 76GB available and will not backup.
Get info on the TM disc says 76GB available. Get info on the Backups.backupdb folder says its size is 2.21TB!!!!!
Any suggestions? I guess I've lost all my older backups but is the current backup salvageable (and trustworthy) or should I move the laptop backup to another drive and start the TM disc from scratch for the MacPro? Can I then just move the laptop sparse image back to the TM disc and the laptop will pick up where it left off?
I will wear starting the MacPro backup from scratch if necessary but don't want to screw the laptop backup as it's my wife's and she's overseas.
Sorry for the long post but wanted to try to be clear.
I just tried to repair the disc in disc utility as suggested to someone in another post but it said error - could not unmount disc.
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I lost all my backups today.
Doesn't sound like it... sounds like you simply can't back up any further. You can still enter Time Machine to restore files, right?
I have MacPro with data totalling about 900GB plus a laptop with 170GB on it backing up to a 1.5TB drive.
Well, there's your problem. Time Machine needs +at a minimum+ 2-3 times more space than what is being backed up. You say you have 1070 GB (about 1.04 TB) being backed up, but you've only given Time Machine 1.5 TB to work with. You need a backup drive that is at least 2-3 TB in size!
Also, if this is your only backup, you're making a huge mistake. You should always have a minimum of 2 backups. See my [Mac Backup Guide|http://www.reedcorner.net/thomas/guides/backups> for more information on backing up. You may also want to look at some of the user contributed tips at the top of the [Leopard Time Machine forum|http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1227]. Those will all apply to Snow Leopard as well.
One other question: you say you're backing up two machines onto one drive. How are you doing this? Time Machine tends not to play well with others... meaning that, since it tries to use every bit of space on the backup drive, trying to use that drive for something else (including a second machine's backup) tends to result in problems. The exception is, I believe, if you have hooked it up to an AirPort base station and are using it like a Time Capsule, in which case Time Machine will expect to share the space with other backups.
I just tried to repair the disc in disc utility as suggested to someone in another post but it said error - could not unmount disc.
Was there a backup going on at the time? Was it connected to the computer you were running Disk Utility on, or to a different computer or a base station? You can't repair a drive that is in use or being accessed remotely. If all else fails, connect it to one of your machines and boot that machine from the Mac OS X install disk, then run Disk Utility from there.

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