TM always do full backups, I tried everything :(

I recently did a full backup of my internal HD on my time capsule using TM.
200Go... I survived
Little problem : now TM does not do any incremental backup and each time wants to archive my entire HD again, 200Go.
I really don't understand, it used to work fine
I tried many things until I reinstalled my TC and restarted again from scratch my TM backup...but nothing changed.
my config is pretty simple : iMac running 10.6.3 + Time Capsule (1To, 1st Gen)
Been playing with mac for 20 years and usually solve things by myself but this time, I'm lost.
any idea ?
thanks a bunch
PS: never been asked to install the recent update that requires to make full backup

Hi,
You've posted in the Leopard Time Machine forum, and one post says you're running Leopard, the other Snow Leopard, so color me confused. (If you click +My Settings+ at the right of this page and fill it in, that will be automatically added to all your posts.)
We've seen this a few of times on Snow Leopard. If you're really on Leopard, these may not apply.
A long shot, but easy to do if you haven't already, is to +*Repair Permissions+* on your boot drive.
In one case, it turned out to be a problem with an extended attribute. If you're comfy with Terminal, take a look at this: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2161241&tstart=0&messageID=102 40585#10240585
Another was something corrupted in OSX; a reinstall of OSX did it: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2198474&tstart=0&messageID=104 23492#10423492
After reinstalling OSX, download and install the "combo" update to get back to 10.6.3. Info and download available at: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1017 Be sure to do a +Repair Permissions+ via Disk Utility (in your Applications/Utilities folder) afterwards.
PS: never been asked to install the recent update that requires to make full backup
That doesn't get offered to everybody; some folks with TC's don't get it, some who don't have them do. We've still not figured out just what it's looking for, finding, or fixing. And it doesn't always make a full backup; it only reports that in a few cases.

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Hi:
I'm setting up time machine to work on a USB drive attached to an airport extreme.
Just reformatted the drive to GUID and took the apostrophes and periods out of my network name.
Things work but there is one problem: the second backup is always a full backup. Ie it backs up 90 gigs, then the second backup is again a 90gig backup.
After that it works fine.
For my first backup I'm plugging the drive in directly through USB, then I go and plug it in through the airport extreme, then when it starts to do a full 90 gig backup for the second backup I cancel, unplug the drive, plug it back in through USB and let it finish the second backup.
After that things work normally but I'm concerned because there's an extra 90 gig on my disk=my disk will get full quickly. I'm using a 500gig disk to backup two macbooks with about 90gig a piece on them currently.
From console the only thing that looks out of place is:
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Should I be concerned? Am I doing something wrong here?

Short answer, yes. Both computers backed up for the second time as if it were an initial backup.
However that was before I reformatted the hard drive -- it wasn't GUID.
Sorry, that's confusing. Here's what happened:
1. Plugged in macbook. Did full backup.
2. Second backup on macbook: did full backup again.
3. From then on with macbook: normal backups.
4. Plugged in macbook pro, did full backup.
5. Second backup on macbook pro did full backup.
6. From then on macbook pro backedup normally.
7. Realized I needed to reformat the drive to GUID. Refmoratted.
8. Did first backup with macbook pro. Did full backup.
9. Did second backup with macbook pro... doing full backup. I'm mid-backup right now.
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Hi,
I just installed Snow Leopard on my Mac Pro a couple of days ago, and have been using Time Machine to make backups (never used it before now). I have TimeMachineEditor installed, and have it set to make a backup daily at 3:30am. It backs up data from my 500GB main hard drive to another internal 500GB hard drive.
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canadavenyc wrote:
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yes, well, if Toronto ever gets a team in any sport worth rooting for, I might stop posting on apple forums and start watching them.
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but let's say I manually want to delete a few snapshots that contain, say, a massive cache file or something totally useless to keep around, which I could afford to delete and would gain me a lot more drive space.
When I go into the TM interface to do the removal, how can I figure out which snapshots to get rid of? How would you do it?
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bly2425 wrote:
I am doing my first backup with an external HD (160GB, USB 2.0) and Time Machine. It has been an hour and only a little bit more than 1GB out of 90GB have been backed up.
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I googled around and tried everything including reformatting the HD to Mac OS Expanded (Journal),
Did you set the right *Partition Map Scheme?* It must be GUID for an Intel Mac, +Apple Partition Map+ for a PPC Mac. Check the first line of the drive via Disk Utility. If that's not right, you must stop TM and reformat it properly. See item 5 of the +Frequently Asked Questions+ post at the top of this forum.
removing "inprogress" file...
That is dangerous and usually unnecessary and just makes the next backup run longer. Do it only as a last resort.
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