Cannot Get My Time Machine To Back Up With Maverick

Hi Every One
I have a 1TB TM and it has been working fine with my 1TB Mac Intel until I installed Maverick.! I could not get it to work so I formatted the TM and reset it as if I was starting again from new.
So the TM starts ok with no issues (I have it pluged in to my Mac as its the first back up from reset and takes a long time rather than trying to do it over the WIFI)
However every time it get's to the same point and stops. It says "Backing up 994.55GB of 1.09TB Calculating Remaining Time" I have left the Mac for 24hrs like this and nothing changes.
The thing I can not undersatnd is that I have only used 830 GB of the Mac hard drive and I have also selcted files not to back up to the TM which says the total back up is 734GB.
How can I have more than 1TB 
Any Ideas Anyone as its starting to  "P" me off now!
Thanks in adavance for your input.
Regards Easty 1010

If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Enter the word "Starting" (without the quotes) in the String Matching text field. You should now see log messages with the words "Starting * backup," where * represents any of the words "automatic," "manual," or "standard." Note the timestamp of the last such message that corresponds to an abnormal backup. Now
CLEAR THE WORD "Starting" FROM THE TEXT FIELD
so that all messages are showning, and scroll back in the log to the time you noted. Select the messages timestamped from then until the end of the backup, or the end of the log if that's not clear. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste (command-V) into a reply to this message.
If all you see are messages that contain the word "Starting," you didn't clear the text field.
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