Time Capsule disappears after back up

Hi
I run and iMac 27 with the latest version of Lion on it and I have been having trouble with a new Time Capsule. My TC is connected to my wireless Belkin router via an Ethernet cable. After some initial set up problems (during which I upgraded the firmware on the TC to the latest version) I finally managed to get the IMac to see the TC and then commenced the first back up. This was scheduled to take a number of hours so after baby sitting it when there were no problems, I left it overnight, setting the screen to switch off but the machine to remain on. When I checked the next day the TC drive had disappeared. The only way I could get the TC to reappear was to reboot both router and TC, at which point I then restarted the back up which appeared to pick up from where it stopped (in terms of time to complete). Having to leave it overnight once more, I was disappointed to discover the same thing happened again. So rebooted again and recommenced the process. This time I managed to see it through to the end and was amazed to see the process complete and then the TC icon on the desk top disappear. Clicking on the TC icon on the toolbar and selecting back up now the system reported a message that the back up was delayed as it could not find the back up drive. All the time the router was connected to the Internet and the green light on the TC was solid.
I have had a look at a number of threads and can see a number of people having connection problems but nothing exactly like mine so I am hoping it is just a setting. Any help or ideas would be gratefully appreciated
regards
Keith

mfez wrote:
I did a restore,
If you mean you restored your entire system from your backups, that's why TM is doing a new full backup: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1338 (although some of the TM engineers claim this doesn't happen anymore in Snow Leopard, it does -- I tried it).
My hard drive is 285.48 GB with 24.11 GB available. Not sure how big the TC is. The message says I need 300 something GB for the backup, but only 128 mb is available. Should I erase it and start over?
That means you have about 261 gb used on your internal; TM adds 20% for workspace and "padding" when making room, so that's why it needs over 300 gb.
TC's used to be 500 gb, recently only 1 tb and 2 tb models are available.
So if it's a 500 gb model, there isn't room for two full backups.
Do you have anything else on the TC besides TM backups? If so, then delete the sparse bundle via the Finder.
If not, you can just erase the TC:
Use the +*Airport Utility+* app, in your Applications/Utilities folder.
Select +*Base Station > Manual Set-Up+* from the Menubar, then Disks in the tool Bar, then Erase.

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