Restored my hard drive.

I'm one of the folks that needed a new HD due to defects in the original iMac I bought just a couple of months ago. I had to restore the HD contents from Time Machine.
Is there a way to get time machine to just backup the incremental changes from the time the last backup was made before the restore?
As it is, it's saying there's not enough room to back up and I figure it's because it thinks it needs to backup the entire drive.
TIA,
David

Is there a way to get time machine to just backup the incremental changes from the time the last backup was made before the restore?
No.
As it is, it's saying there's not enough room to back up and I figure it's because it thinks it needs to backup the entire drive.
TM will delete as many of the oldest snapshots as it has to in order to make room for a new one. If it can't do that, then you need a larger backup volume. I suggest you retire the drive you're using now temporarily, and start a new backup on another, larger drive. When you're sure you'll no longer need the snapshots on the old drive, you can erase it and use it for something else.

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I'm re-posting the answer to this problem so I can show it has been answered:
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