Time Machine has decided to completely replace the four years of TC backups

I had four full backups Time Machine of my iMac to my Time Capsule. A couple of weeks ago, I replaced my iMac with a new. Transfer backups has been flawless, worked fine and regular backup recovery continued as before. Then yesterday...

My iMac gave me a message that essentially says that a thorough examination showed my backups were OK, but they all had to be replaced by a completely new iMac backup everything. I said OK. That backup has taken from one day to the next. This morning, I found the new overall backup was available, and I could recover my files, so this seems OK. Now, however, Time Machine says that it's going to save 145 GB (almost all my storage) again. Unless it's just stuck, saying that it is done, but actually does nothing. Everyone knows this? Should I cancel this new full backup or it means that I'll lose the only backup made last night?

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

You should NOT have continued using the old backup once you have migrated your files to the new iMac.

The current situation is that the backup is damaged or there simply is not enough space to do a new backup. Neither TM remove enough files to continue to operate.

If you want to keep your old backups. Go to airport utility and use the archive function.

You will need to plug a USB stick formatted properly capacity equal to TB. It will then copy the content of the TC on the disc.

Then, you delete the drive... a quick erase is only a minute or two... and then start a new backup.

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