Error creating backup directory

Anyone getting this error and figured out how to fix it?
I tried reformatting the hard drive, but Time Machine keeps on generating this error.

gaigeb wrote:
I'm seeing the error as well on my MacPro. The situation is a bit different here, because I was able to "solve" the problem.
It turns out that I have a number of drives and one of them that was mounted when I first did my TM backup is always unmounted when TM fails with this error, so I did an experiment-- I mounted the drive, did the TM backup, unmounted it, tried it again, and then repeated.
Whenever the drive was mounted, the backup worked. Whenever it wasn't, it failed.
I haven't tried tossing my TM settings, but I'm thinking there might be some reference to the drive that needs to be "resolved".
It is on my list of excluded devices, so maybe there's an alias or something there.
Hope this adds some more info to the discussion!
-Gaige
I can confirm this is the solution. I had a USB drive connected to my computer when I set up Time Machine's drive on another Firewire drive. When the USB drive is not connected I get a "failure to set up directory structure on the drive" message, even though that drive is not involved in the backup (I even set the preference to ignore it for backup through Time Machine). When the USB drive is connected, Time Machine is happy and I get no failure message.
This should be fixed, but the workaround is to plug back the drive(s) that were present during the initial setup (or better yet, unplug any other drive during the initial setup of Time Machine).

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