Time machine makes too many full back-ups

Yes, this has been written about ad nauseam almost since Time Machine's been around. But I am really tired of going through 3 and 4 TB hard drives because of a Time Machine bug/error/glitch/what-have-you. The latest message (from the Time Machine Buddy widget) is this:
Deep event scan at path:/Volumes/LaCie reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
Why? Nothing's changed with this drive. Nothing's changed with the Time Machine Drive.
Thanks in advance for intelligent help.
James

Thanks for the quick reply Eric.
Yeah, I'm certainly aware of these pages. I'm running Mavericks, and there is nothing after 10.8 listed in the otherwise comprehensive resource. But more to my issue, there was only a small bit (D3) that I could find about doing full backups, none of which applied to my situation. Basically I'm wondering why there is a "new" event data base.
Same drive
not many, if any new files (it's an external sound library storage drive),
Weeks went by with none of these issues
but I have noticed issues when waking from sleep
I'm not aware of any potential issues with the Mac's routine maintenance operations. But again, it's an external drive (via FW)
The 2nd link did not work.

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