Time Maschine | FileVault | additional external data HDD

Hi all
At my companies macbook i'm using time maschine with FileVault enabled. I do my time maschine backups to an external HDD. In addition i have another HDD (Raid 0) connected to my macbook which contains additional data i whish to backup as well.
The system backup is working well. My user foldes also is beeing backedup when i log out. Everything as expected.
The additional external data HDD also is beeing backed up, as i wish to. But every now and then the backup of the external HDD is starting from scratch, which is annoying, since it contains about 600G of data.
While backing up from scratch the old backup of the external data HDD is not going to be deleted by time maschine (until the backup-HDD is full). It seems to me, that the external data storage is seen like "one file", which needs to be backed up as a whole.
It doesn't do that every time. Only every couple of times. In this state time maschine is not really useable for my data, which is bad.
Any Ideas about this one ? I really would appreciate it
Thanks,
Stephan

Hi all
Some news on the topic. After the backup startet over and over again most of the time, i deactivated File Fault last weekend. After that, i did the whole backup from scratch (again). This now last for about a week or so. Right now, Time Mashine is doing the whole backup again. (All the 6xx GB). That is ******* annoying.
Here that latest output from the logs:
+Starting standard backup+
+Backing up to: /Volumes/backup/Backups.backupdb+
+Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: daten+
+Node requires deep traversal:/Volumes/daten reason:kFSEDBEventFlagMustScanSubDirs|+
+No pre-backup thinning needed: 793.57 GB requested (including padding), 1.10 TB available+
+Copied 654 files (27.3 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.+
One entry before that:
+Starting standard backup+
+Backing up to: /Volumes/backup/Backups.backupdb+
+No pre-backup thinning needed: 1.43 GB requested (including padding), 1.10 TB available+
+Backup requested due to disk attach+
+Copied 3876 files (220.0 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.+
+No pre-backup thinning needed: 1.18 GB requested (including padding), 1.10 TB available+
+Copied 558 files (927 KB) from volume Macintosh HD.+
+Starting post-backup thinning+
+Deleted backup /Volumes/backup/Backups.backupdb/macbook stijink/2009-06-17-184212: 1.10 TB now available+
+Deleted backup /Volumes/backup/Backups.backupdb/macbook stijink/2009-06-17-174206: 1.10 TB now available+
+Deleted backup /Volumes/backup/Backups.backupdb/macbook stijink/2009-06-17-164321: 1.10 TB now available+
+Deleted backup /Volumes/backup/Backups.backupdb/macbook stijink/2009-06-17-154654: 1.10 TB now available+
+Post-back up thinning complete: 4 expired backups removed+
+Backup completed successfully.+
It seems to me, that Time Maschine is removing to many backups. Unnecessarily, since the backup disc still has 1,8 TB of free space.
Could this even be a problem with the backup disc itself ? It is a WD MyBook configured to use RAID 0. See: http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Book-Mirror-WDH2U20000N/dp/B001B8RSAK/ref= sr12?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1245398972&sr=8-2

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