HT3275 Time Machine Breaks in Mountain Lion after 1st backup

I have been having great problem within both Lion and Mountian Lion and Time Machine. After only a single backup the next backup will ALWAYS FAIL!. When I run Disk Tools to repair the disk for it, I am also always have to do a force eject to remove it from the desk top in order to repair it. It alway finds some errors. I had thought that perhaps the disk may have bad sector but checked this with Drive Genious 3 and fouund this was not the case. I even used a brand new drive and this problem sitll occurs.
This same problem is present on both my Mac Pro and a mac mini that are runnning 10.8.2. I am so frustrated at this point I have been investigatin commercial back up products. I wish and hope that Restropect is still around. It is a day I thought that would never happen to see Apple go down hill so far with the qality of thier software.
I have tried all trouble shooting steps provided by apple at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3275?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US and none of this will fix this problem. If anything is accomplished, the next back up will work only once and then fail on next back up.

lukemac77 wrote:
I would like to perform a clean install of Mountain Lion
Why? That rarely accomplishes anything good.
I do not wish to use setup or migration assistant.
Why not?
If you want to leave apps behind, do the clean install, then use Setup Assistant to transfer your home folders, but omit Applications. You can also omit some broad categories of things in your home folders if you want. See Using Setup Assistant on Mountain Lion or Lion.
1. After the clean install, will I be able to browse AND copy filed from the old backups manually?
If you mean via the TM browser (the "Star Wars" display), perhaps. If the user account(s) you set up have the corresponding UIDs as on the backups, yes. (See the pink box in Problems after using Migration Assistant for an explanation.)
2. If I do copy the files, will I have permission errors?
If you copy them via the Finder, possibly. Especially if the UIDs don't correspond, the new user account may not have permission to change or delete things. You may be able to put default permissions on them via
Resetting Password and/or User Permissions.
Basically, I wish to copy only select files from the Home Folder and re-install everything else anew.
If you skip Applications, and reinstall them, your best bet is to use Setup Assistant, omitting any broad categories you can. Otherwise, let it all transfer, then delete what you don't need.
After that, I want to restart Time Machine in Mountain Lion and start a new backup.
If you don't use Setup Assistant or Migration Assistant, the next backup will be a full one. Plus, the previous backups will be treated as if they were made from a different disk. You can still see them, but via the procedure in #E3 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting.
You may be able to avoid that by manually telling Time Machine to "associate" the erased drive with the old backups, per #B6 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.

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