TM not backing up correctly

I had been using Tiime Machine without a problem with a 250 GB boot drive backing up to an external 1TB Western Digital Studio drive. The boot drive was getting full so I carbon copy cloned it to a new 1 TB drive. It was then I realized that despite the fact that my data was only 250GB, TM looks at the total physical space of the hard drive and then needs at least 2-3 times that amount to actually do the back up. So TM would not back up my new HD as my boot drive was 1 TB and so was my backup drive. So I went out and bought a 240 SSD drive and again carbon copy cloned the 1TB boot drive to my new SSD 240GB drive. Now TM says it needs 1.5 TB to backup my SSD drive even thougjh it had previoiusly backed up the old drive that was about the same size. I'm wondering if there is a plist file to trash or some way to explicitly point TM to back up the new SSD drive. I still have the old 1TB drive mounted in my Mac Pro but I erased and renamed it so TM wouldn't look for that drive anymore. Any suggestions on how to get my backups working again?

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