Backup-closing backup package

For some reason, backup now hangs at the "closing backup package" point. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Joe

Oh, oh, I know!
ask Me!
With a Mac OS X Server, You can run Time Machine on the Server. It backs up every locally-attached drive by default. That means the Users folder, representing all Server-resident User files, on whatever drive, gets backed up, and the permissions are maintained perfectly. It also seems to work very hard to backup up the LDAP database automatically, if you are using that feature.
On older versions, be sure to disable Spotlight Indexing on the Backup Drive itself. Time Machine already uses Spotlight to do a special index, and having it be busy computing the "regular" spotlight index confuses it.
You need to check from Time-to-time that the latest backup was within the last hour, to be sure Time Machine did not get "stuck". Other than that, it just works.
To restore, log on to the server as the Admin, navigate to the folder you want to restore, and Invoke Time Machine (except for iPhoto and Mail, which use special procedures to restore their databases).

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