Problemas con mi Time Machine

Hola, tengo un problema con mi Time Capsule, despues de hacer varias copias de seguridad, ahora me aparece este error en mi Time Machine: La imagen del disco de copia de seguridad “/Volumes/Data/Victor.sparsebundle” ya está en uso.
Ojalá alguien pueda ayudarme con esto.
Saludos...

Spanish:
Yo no hablo español así que por favor acepte mis disculpas por la mala traducción del Inglés al Español.
La barra gris que se ve en el inicio puede indicar que el sistema detectaun error de disco duro. Le sugiero que ejecuta la aplicación Utilidad de Discos que se pueden encontrar en las aplicaciones o carpeta Utilidades. Si detecta errores significativos cuando se ejecuta la opción "Verificar disco", entonces mi recomendación es realizar una copia de sus datos y tener el iMac a un proveedor de servicios para su posterior evaluación.
Si usted está interesado en el control de la unidad de disco duro SMART(Self-Monitoring, Analysis, y Presentación de Informes de Tecnología)registros de errores a continuación, descargar la aplicación SMART Utility desde:
http://www.volitans-software.com/smart_utility.php
Si los informes de utilidad para aplicaciones de Smart SMART de estadoque la unidad ha fallado o está fallando entonces es probable que necesites un nuevo disco duro.
English:
I do not speak Spanish so please accept my apologies for the poor translation from English to Spanish.
The gray bar you see at startup may indicate that your system is detecting a hard drive error. I suggest running the Disk Utility application which can be found in the Applications/Utilities folder. If you detect any significant errors when running the 'verify disk' option then my recommendation is to back up your data and take the iMac in to a service provider for further evaluation.
If you are interested in checking the hard drive SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) error logs then download the SMART Utility application from:
http://www.volitans-software.com/smart_utility.php
If the SMART Utility application SMART status reports that your drive has failed or is failing then you will probably need a new hard drive.

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