Time machine issues after migrating to a new MBP

I just migrated to a MacBok Pro (new, late 2008) 2.4 GHZ with 4 GB RAM. I backed up my older iMac and then during an erase and install, i chose to use the time machine to migrate my data from the installation process. Everything went well and it all migrated over, but when I turned on TM, it failed. I also noticed that the MBP was now named iMac (2). I guess the name transfered over as well. I am not so concerned about this and can change the name in the Sharing Prefs, but it will not pick up where the last TM back up ended. It wants to create a new back up folder and re-back everything up again.....eats into my storage...
Can this be fixed? Can I just continue on where TM last left off?
Thanks.
I did go through and repair permissions, ran the daily/weekly scrips, etc....

Yep, I found that out this AM when I called support. I also sent feedback to Apple RE this. It really should be able to merge and pick up where it left off.....
Other than forcing me to really look at all the crap on my mac (a good thing), I am loving the new MBP.

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Hi, I have a similar problem. I restored my new Mac with the Time Machine from the old Mac. Now I want to keep on using incremental. Why I can't?
Because it's a new and different Mac, and TM backs up Macs, not just drives, or files and folders. Besides, unless they're absolutely identical (same make & model of everything internal and external), there are different drivers, etc.
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If you'd done a complete restore on your old system, TM would make a complete, new, full backup. It may seem strange, but reloading a file is the same as changing it, as far as TM is concerned.
Here's the scoop: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1338
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This is really bad luck. And what can be seen here, it is not related to Yosemite but Mavericks, since I asume your backups were made with Mavericks. Though, it is possible that this bug still persists with Yosemite.
I have a similar problem. I am still on Mavericks. I see missing files in ~/Library/Preferences on a regular basis. When I come aware of it, I fix it manually by excluding Preferences folder from backup, run backup, include folder Preferences and finally backup again. But this fix does not last for long. Suddenly after some weeks I see a again missing files in that folder, when browsing the "Latest" backup.
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My feeling is, that many users do not recognize, that they are victim of this horrible bug, cause in most cases only few folders are hit by this bug.
And now since Yosemite is out, people are actually using there backups for the first time since Mavericks and run into a disaster.
Atm I am trying to test, if maybe fsevent daemon is the problem, in the past there have been issues like http://openradar.appspot.com/10207999
I did a check on my drive, and I found issues with realpath()/readdir(). Though, those issues may just be old and have not been detected by me for a very long time. My MBP is 5 years old and I upgraded all the way from 10.5 to 10.6 to 10.9.
With 10.6 I never had such an issue.
But more likely, the issue is related to the "Cleaning up old backups" process. Cause I also have the feeling, that when my backup drive gets full and the shrink process took place, then the result are missing files in younger backups then the ones cleaned. If that is true, then maybe the hard-link-approach of Time Machine is somehow involved.

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xairbusdriver wrote:
Well, you're obviously more informed about the technical aspects of all this. I am just trying to confirm the easiest way to start using an added drive, not sure I want to have the whole, current back up added to the new one, anyway. It's big enough as it is. How long do I really want to trust any data to a mechanical device?
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