Time Machine and Mountain Lion

Now that I've installed Mountain Lion, there seem to be two instances of Time Machine on my backup drive. Has anyone else experienced this? Do I need to do anything? One seems to be backing up my HD and the other---?

I've installed Mountain Lion on two iMacs and one MBP so far. Each time TM has taked a long time to do its first back up after the upgrade. Back ups on the order of 10 - 11GB were required on each computer.
If you were trying to do this very soon after the installation finished, keep in mind that Spotlight will automatically be reindexing your entire book volume and that alone will slow down the entire computer. If you are doing a Spotlight index and the first TM backup simultaneiously, you would have a serious slow down.
You might wait a day or so to see if this problem recurrs. If not, then you can put it down to the "after installation" slow down associated with simultaneous sytstem wide processes.
You can further check by opening Activity Monitor in your Applications>Utilities folder. It will show you the percent of CPU being used by what processes. That will be a big clue as to what is eating up processing power.
Jay

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i recentlz went to Apple Geius to get my HD formatted as i had a corrupt disk. Once cleaned and my hardware all verified as OK, i got the apple store to load Mountain Lion, previously running Snow Leopard. I came home conneted to my time machine and it restored evrything that from this mornings back up no issues.
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Hello
I'm hoping someone can provide some insight into this situation.
I upgraded to Mountain Lion on release day (July 25th) and seem to be having some issues with my Time Machine backups. I've noticed that when I enter Time Machine - I have NOTHING available pre upgrade date (July 25th). However, when I open my time machine preferences, it says right there that my oldest backup is 21, May, 2011 yet I cannot access this???
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~C.

Hi,
Shut down, and restart TM a few times has worked for some.
I, like always when installing a new OS X, use Disk Utility to erase the TM drive, and reselect the drive for TM use. The drive is only used for TM, and no other files are stored on it.
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TechCoach007 wrote:
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TechCoach007 wrote:
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