Time Machine usage after upgrade to Lion

Hi,
On one of my Macs I've still Snow Leopard running and I'm using Time Machine for backups.
Question: After upgrading to Lion on that Mac, will I be able to continue "incremental" Time Machine backups OR will I have to make a complete Time Machine backup of the entire hard drive?
Many thanks.

Because of the new OS, Time Machine will want to backup the whole new OS and all other files affected by it. It's a lengthy backup. Then it will go back to incremental backups.
Hope this helps

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I just upgraded my macbook pro from Lion to Mountain Lion.
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Regards,
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Aug 18 21:58:48: --- last message repeated 2 times ---
Aug 18 22:00:06 Macintosh-2 mtmd[2132]: Set snapshot time:1313697608 (current time:1313697606)
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Aug 18 22:05:39: --- last message repeated 14 times ---
Aug 18 22:05:39 Macintosh-2 mds[68]: (/Volumes/Time Machine Backups/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/A0B6A325-88A2-4408-AF3F-319C76E5E58C)(E rror) IndexGeneral in fd_pread:pread(120 /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/A0B6A325-88A2-4408-AF3F-319C76E5E58C/1. indexPostings, o:0, s:262144) err:5
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Basically to keep a long story short - i need to take my computer in for repair tomorrow. I recently did an upgrade to Mountain Lion a day or two ago. I haven't done a Time Machine backup until today (a couple days after i upgraded to Mountain Lion) because i wanted to make sure that my previous TM backup (Snow Leopard 10.6.8) was the most up to date and best update that i could revert back to if i had any issues with Mountain Lion, or any application compatibility, etc etc.
I don't have any broken applications and it seems like Mountain Lion is running better than Snow Leopard. However, as i said - i'm taking my computer in for repair tomorrow, i would like to know that i have the most up to date Time Machine backup with the new Mountain Lion so that when i restore it back from my Time Machine backup after i get it back from repair, i won't have any issues with the migration, which could potentially lead me into more technicalities.
I have a 500GB Harddrive, with about 70GB left of free space....I did the initial backup prior to upgrading to Mountain Lion, and it upgraded 400+GB of info, now, since Mountain Lion - the first backup with Mountain Lion initially said 46GB - then it went down to 14GB by the time it was all said and done....so what exactly did it back up?
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I received the same error and experienced the same issue that you have described but after performing a Time Capsule soft reset and then toggling the TM Off and then back On I was able issue a backup now and see my previous backups.
Here is the link to where I posted my fix; https://discussions.apple.com/message/19069543#19069543. Someone else had success using a different method. The only comment / complaint that I have since the ML OS X upgrade is that TM now takes at least 20 to 30 seconds before I can click/select a backup.
I hope this helps.

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After upgrading to Lion over the weekend I notice a significant slowdown of Time Machine processing. I assumed the first backup or two would take some time but it's been a couple of days. The process always hangs up at the "Indexing backup" stage. It takes a couple of hours to finish.
I found several threads relating to slowed down backups on Lion, most seem to hang at the "Preparing" stage (not the same symptom) but I did find some good diagnostic pointers. I installed the widget to see what kind of messages were being produced and found a few dozen "Waiting for index to be ready (100)" messages at the end of the stream. Further research - this is not a good thing :-) It seems a couple of such messages can be ok, but this many usually indicates a problem. I'm going to discount the possibility of a hardware failure because everything was perfectly fine up to the point I made the upgrade. Plus the prepare and copy seem to proceed at the expected speed (I watched the most recent cycle just to be sure).
Here is the full message log (it's still running at the moment):
Starting standard backup
Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://Paul%[email protected]/Paul%20DiMarzio's%20Tim e%20Capsul
Mounted network destination at mountpoint: /Volumes/Paul DiMarzio's Time Capsul using URL: afp://Paul%[email protected]/Paul%20DiMarzio's%20Tim e%20Capsul
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Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
12.15 GB required (including padding), 490.69 GB available
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I further found the advice and instructions on how to run the disk utility on the sparsebundle. I did a verify and repair, and the results came back that the drive appears to be ok (it did not say that it explicitly repaired anything).
But the problem remains.
I use a 1TB Time Capsule with plenty of free capacity (only half full). The TC and my MacBook are both hardwired into the home network, networking speed has never been an issue.
I'd sure hate to delete the backup file and start from scratch, there's over a year's worth of data there and I have, occassionally, wanted to go in there and pick up a downlevel or subsequently deleted file.
Any advice on other diagnostics or repair options to take? Thanks!
Paul

After posting I decided to keep trying to slog my way through the troubleshooting guide. Some of the steps are beyond my understanding but I did follow the advice in #D2 to delete the .Spotlight-V100 file from the sparsebundle. That action does seem to have done the trick, the backups are now completing in normal time. I ran a couple just to be sure. I've verified the backups with BackupLoupe and entered the Time Machine, all appears to be in order and as expected. The only odd side effect is that the backup volume is no longer ejected after completion but that might just be an artifact of all my mounting/de-mounting and playing with Finder. Anyway a very small price to pay for what looks to be a working system again.
Hopefully the good behavior will last through a few days and a few reboots :-)
ps - if you're reading this and don't know about the troublshooting guide it's here: http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html (thanks pondini)

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