HT3275 I get the message that backup failed because the volume is already in use.  Any ideas?

My Time Machine for my iMac has suddenly developed a problem: on repeated attempts to do a backup, it returns the message that the backup failed because the volume is already in use.  The solution to the problem may well be simple and obvious, but it'll be a revelation to me and any help will be gratelfully received.

Have a look at Pondini's excellent information here...
http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html
Perhaps here...
The Backup disk image ... sparsebundle ... is already in use.

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