Time Machine doing strange things

Hi folks,
So I recently upgraded my hard drive, and restored from my Time Machine backup and everything came back just as it was, which was great.  However, now I am having some serious Time Machine issues.  It deleted all of my old backups, which I understand happens when you restore?  That is kind of annoying, but whatever, I can live with it. 
However, what's really strange is that now it tries to backup, and it's telling me it needs 270 GB and I only have 163 GB available.  But there is already one backup on there, so I'm not sure why it thinks it needs to start from scratch basically (at least I think that's what it's doing, as my account only has 235 GB of used space total).  And what's really strange is that when I check out the space on my Time Machine hard drive, when I click "Get Info" on the backups folder, it says that it's 130 GB, but when I scan the drive with DaisyDisk, it tells me that it's over 200 GB, but not hidden or anything, and I just cannot figure out where all that extra space that is being taken up is. 
So what I'm actually considering doing is just deleting the backup folder all together (although I don't know if this will get rid of just the 130 GB that it says it is, or all of it), and letting Time Machine start over.  Is that a good or bad idea?  Any ideas as to what the heck is going on?  Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

sbollag wrote:
now it tries to backup, and it's telling me it needs 270 GB
That means it's actually trying to back up about 225 GB (it adds about 20% for workspace), so yes, that's a full backup (less the things it skips, such as system work files, most caches and logs, trash, etc.).
And what's really strange is that when I check out the space on my Time Machine hard drive, when I click "Get Info" on the backups folder, it says that it's 130 GB, but when I scan the drive with DaisyDisk, it tells me that it's over 200 GB,
Believe Get Info.  Time Machine backups have an unusual structure that cause many apps to count things more than once.  See Hard Links in How Time Machine works its Magic for details.
So what I'm actually considering doing is just deleting the backup folder all together (although I don't know if this will get rid of just the 130 GB that it says it is, or all of it), and letting Time Machine start over.
Yes, but don't delete it (emptying the trash will take a very long time and may cause other troubles).  Erase it with Disk Utility -- that will just take a few moments.
What's happened is, Time Machine is treating your disk as a new one (it shouldn't on Snow Leoaprd, but sometimes it does).  So it deleted all but the last backup of the "old" one, trying to make room. 
It sounds like your TM drive may be a bit too small.  Usually, it needs at least twice the space of the data it's backing-up.  See #1 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions.  You might want to put a larger one on your Christmas list. 
Then you can use the old one for "secondary" backups.  See #27 in that same link for some suggestions.

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