Backup keeps failing and never gets completed?

i have tried to back up to a usb drive multiple times. I keep getting the same error message that" back up could not be completed. problem may be temporary,try again. if the error is repeated, check back up disk using disk utility.
I repeated many times and checked the back up disk and found no issues with it.

See Pondini's TM FAQs for starters.

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You can change the case sensitivity of the sparsebundle.. but I really doubt the error is real.
See A8 here.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
The sparsebundle should have case sensitivity turned on.
I cannot even fathom how it could have changed.
Let me recommend before you start fooling around with the sparsebundle.
Do a full network start.
Power everything off.. start up modem.. wait 2min.. power up the TC.. wait 2min.. power up any other network gear like switches.. wait..
Now power up the computer and try it.
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Link for Download & Install & Setup & Activation problems may help
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Backups keep failing

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I have been a TC user for some time and generally all has been well!
Until recently.....
The backups keep failing and I can't always connect to the disk.
I have more than 1 Mac so its not the computers
I had Apple replace the TC ( as was having problems with the N network.. )
But still getting the problem.
Its backs up lots of data but just before it gets to the end of the data transfer it zero's the amount of data and starts sending it again!!!
Any ideas?
Its all latest firmware and Mac OS so could be that...
Anyone else seeing the problem?
Alan

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If I turn the HDD off and back on, it will reconnect to the HDD and I can start a backup or browse the disk but after a few minutes, I get the "Connection failed" error which states: The server may not exist or it is not operational at this time. Check the server name or IP address and your network connection and try again."
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I have exactly the same problem.
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A couple of days later, the same problem occurred again, fixed it by this work around ...
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