Managing Time Capsule after a restore?

I had some data corruption and had to reformat my Imac hard drive and restore from a Time Machine backup. I'm back up and running but haven't turned Time Machine/Time Capsule back on yet. I'm not sure what will happen - will it just continue to add to my previous backups? Or will it start a new series of backups and delete or overwrite the previous ones?
Do I need to do anything (like delete the old backups and start over) or just turn it back on and let it go from there?
Any thoughts/comments appreciated.

FKandt wrote:
I had some data corruption and had to reformat my Imac hard drive and restore from a Time Machine backup. I'm back up and running but haven't turned Time Machine/Time Capsule back on yet. I'm not sure what will happen - will it just continue to add to my previous backups? Or will it start a new series of backups and delete or overwrite the previous ones?
Yes, it will do a new, full backup: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1338
Do I need to do anything (like delete the old backups and start over) or just turn it back on and let it go from there?
That all depends. But first, connect via Ethernet if at all possible. Whatever you choose below, it will be still be slow, but not quite as bad as via WIFI.
If your TC isn't well over twice the size of the data that's being backed-up, then your best bet is to erase it (since Time Machine won't ever delete your last remaining backup). See the second point ("To delete everything . . .") in #Q5 of the Using TIME MACHINE with a TIME CAPSULE *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.
If the TC is larger than that, but there's not a lot of space available, the backup will be excruciatingly slow. That's because TM will delete your oldest backup, dismount the sparse bundle, compact it, re-mount it, and see if it made enough space. If not, repeat . . . over and over and over.
So you may want to manually delete a bunch of old backups, then compact the sparse bundle yourself, per #12 in the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip,* also at the top of the Time Machine forum. That will still be very slow, but somewhat faster.

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