Time Machine says it is backing up my Drobo, but changes are not being backed up.

I have a Time Capsule hooked to a mac mini and a 4 TB Drobo RAID connected as an external hard Drive connected to the Mac Mini as well.
My Drobo went insane and I had to re-setup the Drobo with it's partitions etc...
I Renamed the partitions exactly as I had before the issue and Time machine performed a full backup of the Drobo and afterward it will say it is backeing up, but any changes made are not showing on the time machine backup file.
I looked at the Console Activity file and it shows the "Production" drive it is supposed to be backing up as "Production 2"
HELP ME!!!

You might have to wipe and start over.. TM is extremely sensitive to name changes on hard disks.. because they are used to identify the backup .. not the drive share name you are looking at but a UUID set when you reformatted..
It is important you understand how Time Machine works.. See http://pondini.org/TM/Home.html the first couple of articles..
Then in troubleshooting http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html try B6 on reconnecting to your backups..
My experience is.. if you want reliable backups.. wipe and start over.
And use a cloner.. eg Carbon Copy Cloner.. it simply does a better job of things like external drives.

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Chris Harmount wrote:
my back up drive is supposed to be 250G total. It says it has 185G available.
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http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/fcpx-bug-best-practices-for-using-external-hard- drives-and-final-cut-pro-x/
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