Airport Time Capsule gets hung up on virifying backup

Occasionally when I am backing up my MacBook Pro (2011) with latest software to my Time Capsule the verifying backup step gets hung up and does not complete.  What do I need to do to keep this from happening?  This may happen several times a day.

I stopped the verify back up and then used the "Back Up Now" Time Machine couldn’t complete the backup to “Bill Lantz's AirPort Time Capsule”. It also stated "The backup disk image “/Volumes/Data/William’s MacBook Pro (2).sparsebundle” is already in use.
Does anybody have a suggestion?

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