Error Message in Time Capsule

Does anyone know why I would get this message from a Time Capsule:The backup disk image “/Volumes/Data/John Tozzi’s MacBook Pro.sparsebundle” is already in use?  One minute it works fine and then I get this error message with no change in any settings, etc.  Thanks.

Excellence of Lion networking is what you are seeing.
C12
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
And every third post on this discussion area.

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