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I have a 1TB Time Capsule that I bought in October 2008. I have been using it with Time Machine for back ups. Earlier this week Time Machine gave me a message that it wanted to do a new complete back up that would delete my previous back ups. I thought this was weird, but it said it would improve reliability. It would not do any back ups until I agreed. I didn't want to start it at that time because I wanted to update to Mountain Lion before getting rid of any back ups. Too late! I have updated to Mountain Lion and gotten all the updates released this week, meanwhile the back up started and delete nearly 4 years worth of back ups! Has this happened to anyone else?

I'm having the same issue, but my TC is only 4 months old. I'm glad I have a separate external hard drive that will do backups, but it was supposed to alternate between the TC and external drive.
Everything was working fine until upgrading to ML....
This is a screenshot that I just took and the Data (TC) drive has been sitting like this since last night when it wanted to do a brand new backup and delete all previous ones. Left the computer on all night because it said that the backup would take approximately 17 hours. Geez...
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