Time Machine not saving snapshots since Lion Upgrade?

I upgraded from SL to Lion a recently and have noticed that Time Machine seems to be behaving diffrently from SL.
I tend to back up to an external USB connected drive every 1 or 2 days.
I've noticed a couple of things...
1) TM in the taskbar usually shows an exclamation mark and says Backup Delayed. This didn't happen under SL wth the same backup frequency
2) Possibly related - if I look in dashboard I see hourly messages stating
Starting standard backup
Error -35 while resolving alias to backup target
Backup failed with error: 19
I assume this is because the external drive isn't permanently connected (it's only for backups) ? I thought TM saved hourly snapshots to my local HD but does this message mean it's trying to backup only to the external drive?
I also get the following quite frequently...
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
Deep event scan at path:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
Finished scan
Having searched around this might be because of the number of backup fails between successful backups?
I've restored a couple of files from older backups and they seem to restore ok so the backups on the external drive seem valid and go back a year.
Is there something wrong with my TM settings ... something I should have changed after going to Lion?
Any help gratefully accepted... it's more of an irritation at present but would hate to find a problem waiting to catch me out when I desperately need to restore!
Cheers
Iain

Iain_IP2 wrote:
1) TM in the taskbar usually shows an exclamation mark and says Backup Delayed. This didn't happen under SL wth the same backup frequency
Yes, Apple changed that. Previously it wouldn't do that until there'd been no backup for 10 days; now it's shown as soon as an hourly backup can't find the destination.
Starting standard backup
Error -35 while resolving alias to backup target
That's normal if the drive isn't connected.
Do backups work properly when it is connected? If so, there isn't a problem.
I thought TM saved hourly snapshots to my local HD
Yes, but those are completely separate from the ones on your TM drive. See #30 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions.
I also get the following quite frequently...
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
Deep event scan at path:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
Finished scan
Having searched around this might be because of the number of backup fails between successful backups?
You should get those after backups that actually failed (rather than just didn't start), or after an abnormal shutdown or improper disconnection of the external HD.
It means that Time Machine isn't sure whether the previous backup completed successfully; so it must compare everything on your system to the backups.
I'd recommend connecting the drive and letting a backup run. See if it completes normally. Leave the drive connected and either do a backup manually, or wait for the next hourly one, and see if you get those messages again.
You can tell what's going on with recent backups via the widget in #A1 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting.

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