TM erased my backups after restore!!

So i just tried the restore feature of TM, it took about 2hrs and then rebooted fine. I went away and came back and TM told me my external was full. I checked it and 28gb was left plus my original TM backup folder. I opened Documents and pressed TM and it only went back to my install, all other saves were not there.
Is this correct? Why would TM remove all the older backups? Also if i choose to switch drives but revert back to the original backup drive will it ignore all older backups and erase them again? This doesnt make sense.

If you have written to the drive since the loss, no recovery.
Second, Time Machine is NOT an file archive program. It is made to recover files that you accidentally deleted or if a system dies.
If you want to archive files, use a program like Carbon Copy Cloner that will copy new images over to the drive on a schedule.

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--Hayden

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