Months of backup - gone...

I have been using Time Machine for several months. When I opened it, I could see several months of backups. Today, each of my hourly backups began to fail. I opened Time Machine and the ONLY backup is from this morning. All others are gone. Occasionally I have gotten a message that it needs to delete an old backup to make space, but this would be a date a month in the past. I have done nothing to my system, not added significant new docs. The message I'm getting for my hourly backup is that it needs 130GB for a backup and I only have 22 GB available. Both my internal and external are 250GM with 32 GB and 22GB of space available.
Any thoughts on what's going on?

dcnc wrote:
I have been using Time Machine for several months. When I opened it, I could see several months of backups. Today, each of my hourly backups began to fail. I opened Time Machine and the ONLY backup is from this morning. All others are gone. Occasionally I have gotten a message that it needs to delete an old backup to make space, but this would be a date a month in the past. I have done nothing to my system, not added significant new docs. The message I'm getting for my hourly backup is that it needs 130GB for a backup and I only have 22 GB available. Both my internal and external are 250GM with 32 GB and 22GB of space available.
Any thoughts on what's going on?
First, both of your drives are a bit "tight" on space. Recommended is 15% free.
Your TM drive should be 2 to 3 times larger than your internal drive.
I think the problem is that there are no single old backups to delete to make room for some new and large backups it is looking to archive. If it needs 130 GB, clearly the TM drive is much too small. If the TM drive has to erase 130 GB of data, that might include the basic, original system from which all other backups stem, and that cannot be done.

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Parallels, Entourage, and Thunderbird are not used on this Mac and the only change to the backup data are new documents. Nothing unusual.
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As to how this might have occurred?
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At the risk of pressing on a sore point it demonstrates the importance of testing back ups too.
FWIW my back up procedure uses two different apps, three Hard Disks, and four locations.
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8:16:19 am - Backing up to /dev/disk3s2: /Volumes/BackUp Brain/Backups.backupdb
8:16:37 am - Will copy (2.5 GB) from Macintosh HD
8:16:37 am - Found 2730 files (2.55 GB) needing backup
8:16:37 am - 5.44 GB required (including padding), 38.76 GB available
8:24:45 am - Copied 3029 items (1.97 GB) from volume Macintosh HD. Linked 11142.
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8:26:05 am - Starting post-backup thinning
8:26:05 am - Error: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-50 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -50.)" (paramErr: error in user parameter list) deleting backup: /Volumes/BackUp Brain/Backups.backupdb/Diarmaid’s 27" iMac (2)/2014-11-24-081624.inProgress/B129B56F-A2A5-46DB-B181-719D23BF3FE5
8:28:15 am - Deleted /Volumes/BackUp Brain/Backups.backupdb/Diarmaid’s 27" iMac (2)/2014-11-23-055154 (1.41 GB)
8:28:36 am - Deleted /Volumes/BackUp Brain/Backups.backupdb/Diarmaid’s 27" iMac (2)/2014-11-23-043709 (1.1 MB)
8:28:46 am - Deleted /Volumes/BackUp Brain/Backups.backupdb/Diarmaid’s 27" iMac (2)/2014-11-23-033533 (868 KB)
8:29:32 am - Deleted /Volumes/BackUp Brain/Backups.backupdb/Diarmaid’s 27" iMac (2)/2014-11-23-023006 (1.9 MB)
8:30:28 am - Deleted /Volumes/BackUp Brain/Backups.backupdb/Diarmaid’s 27" iMac (2)/2014-11-23-012426 (1.1 MB)
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