Error when interrupting hourly backups

So I know you're supposed to be able to interrupt regular backups (by putting your mac to sleep, for example) and it just picks up where it stopped... But my Time Capsule doesn't seem to work that way. Every other time I interrupt it, when I come back to my computer I get an error message saying the backup could not be completed. When I try to backup again I usually get error messages until finally it agrees to go into "preparing" and stays that way for a long time. It's still preparing right now.
Last time this happened it ended up fixing itself but it took a long time and a lot of tries. I tried deleting the sparsebundle file and starting over but it still gives me an error when I interrupt a regular hourly backup. Does anyone else here experience this? It works fine otherwise but aren't I supposed to be able to interrupt a regular backup?

Do you find that you also get that error message when interrupting a regular backup? My backup file became completely messed up simply because I interrupted it, and it's happened several times already. Your suggestion to delete the unfinished backup file seemed to have at least work for now (it's finally backing up after a whole day of nothing but error messages), but this isn't how this product is meant to work, is it?
Also, I can't seem to fully get rid of the backup file I deleted; it's stuck in the trash now and when I try emptying the trash it just "prepares" to delete it for a long time and doesn't actually do it.

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