Time Machine keeps make full backups

I have a TM drive (3 TB) backup 3 partitions (about 1.2 TB total) since October 2014.  TM keep doing strange things when I'm doing something unrelated to the TM. For example, temporarily starting in Mavericks (I'm under 10.6.8) completely wrecks TM in same 10.6.8 so I turned off it and physically disconnected the disk until I'm back in 10.6.8.  I spent 2 months with the support of Apple earlier this year to try to figure out how to make it work again in 10.6.8.  I have reset TM (Pondini.org pages) several times.  The most recent problem occurred when I tried to resize a partition on a disk mirror (excluded in the TM).  After you have finished resizing, TM has made a backup of 600GO when he was that nothing changed on any of the 3 targets TM usually saves.  I had to upgrade to a larger disk, earlier this year because of this kind of behavior (2 TB-3 TB >) and I have reset the UUID of the new drive so that it would continue from where the 2 TB drive left using the xattr and fsaclctl commands (it worked perfectly!).  I'm slowly running out of space again.  Does someone understand why this is happening?  More importantly, is there a way to delete a backup and do not have TM do it again.  I could easily delete the most recent backup but I suspect that the next time that TM made a backup, it will be rebackup the 600 GB. I suppose that one solution is to buy another drive and reset the UUID, but this does not solve the problem of weird behavior.  TM is an archive history is important, but it's a royal pain!

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