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My Time Machine will not back up

My time machine won't back up now after the initial back up. Error message reads:

Unable to complete backup. An error occured while creating the backup folder.

This is what the time machine log reads:

Starting manual backup

Backing up to: /Volumes/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive/Backups.backupdb

Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Resource busy

Error: (Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=512 "The file “F3CE3823-7012-410D-972B-0E14B0901ED6” couldn’t be saved in the folder “2012-12-03-214416.inProgress”." UserInfo=0x7f9edb2845d0 {NSFilePath=/Volumes/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive/Backups.backupdb/Andrew Rafton’s iMac/2012-12-03-214416.inProgress/F3CE3823-7012-410D-972B-0E14B0901ED6, NSUnderlyingError=0x7f9edb260960 "The operation couldn’t be completed. Invalid argument"}) Creating directory F3CE3823-7012-410D-972B-0E14B0901ED6

Failed to make snapshot.

Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Resource busy

Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Resource busy

Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Resource busy

Error: (22) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.HostUUID path:/Volumes/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive/Backups.backupdb/Andrew Rafton’s iMac size:37

Backup failed with error: 2

Starting automatic backup

Backing up to: /Volumes/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive/Backups.backupdb

Error: (22) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.HostUUID path:/Volumes/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive/Backups.backupdb/Andrew Rafton’s iMac size:37

Backup failed with error: 2

Starting manual backup

Backing up to: /Volumes/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive/Backups.backupdb

Error: (22) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.HostUUID path:/Volumes/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive/Backups.backupdb/Andrew Rafton’s iMac size:37

Backup failed with error: 2

Starting manual backup

Backing up to: /Volumes/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive/Backups.backupdb

Error: (22) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.HostUUID path:/Volumes/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive/Backups.backupdb/Andrew Rafton’s iMac size:37

Backup failed with error: 2

Any idea what I should do???

Posted on Dec 3, 2012 7:29 PM

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My Time Machine will not back up

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