Time Machine...  out of disk space on day one--what to do?

I have spent hours identifying items to exclude on my Mac Pro... then I got one good backup of say 800 or so GB... then I replaced all of my HDs with larger drives but with the same data and drive name and now Time Machine wants a lot more disk space to do the next update (backup).... apparently, although TM seemed to be doing other backups (before the HD upgrade) it seems that it cannot automatically delete what it needs...
How can I start fresh? Is there a way to tell TM to recycle the backup?
Can Time Machine write to a second disk... as an overflow backup drive?
I need like a 2 or 3TB Time Capsule.... what to do?
Thanks,
Robert

Robert Broussard wrote:
I have spent hours identifying items to exclude on my Mac Pro... then I got one good backup of say 800 or so GB... then I replaced all of my HDs with larger drives but with the same data and drive name and now Time Machine wants a lot more disk space to do the next update (backup).... apparently, although TM seemed to be doing other backups (before the HD upgrade) it seems that it cannot automatically delete what it needs...
If you want it to backup new drives, it's going to backup everything on them (unless you re-entered them, the previous exclusions apply to the previous drives.) Just because they contain copies of the same files, to TM, it's all new. You don't say how big your TM drive is, but if it's 1 tb with 800 gb already used, there isn't much space left.
How can I start fresh? Is there a way to tell TM to recycle the backup?
Don't know what you mean by "recycle", but most likely you need to erase your TM drive (with Disk Utility) and let TM do a new, full backup.
Can Time Machine write to a second disk... as an overflow backup drive?
I think so. You need to set them up as a single RAID volume. Browse or search this forum, as there was a post about this in the last few days, with specific instructions.

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