HT3275 Why would Backup suddenly stop and give me sparse bundle already in use error message?

The error message I keep getting is:  The backup disk image “/Volumes/Data/Brenda Glim’s MacBook Pro.sparsebundle” is already in use.  Help!

Because you are running ML and that is one of its bugs.
Even Lion can do it.
Wireless makes it worse.
Reboot the TC.. or reboot the network and it should go away.

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