Recent Time Machine and Airport Leopard update causes Kernel panic

I had 15 iMac's in a classroom that were all updated to the new Leopard update for Time Machine and Airport. When they restarted, they all gave a kernel panic error. Successive restarts continue with the screen starting with the kernel panic error message and asking for a shutdown.
I am extremely sure that it had to be those updates because they were all fine before that. I doubt 30 pieces of RAM could have gone kaput all at once. Since we have a dual boot setup, if I press the alt key when I restart, I can boot into the Windows side without any problems.
If somebody has had a similar problem and found a way to do something about the kernel error, please let me know. Thanks in advance. I did the usual zapping RAM and stuff. It didn't help.

More information - from the crash report:
Tue Mar 25 11:23:14 2008
panic(cpu 6 caller 0x001A8C8A): Kernel trap at 0x004095b9, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x00000018, CR3: 0x00d7b000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0x00000000, EBX: 0x0bb2c200, ECX: 0x00000000, EDX: 0x0c0915a0
CR2: 0x00000018, EBP: 0x82ffbcc8, ESI: 0x0c09de00, EDI: 0x0c09bfa0
EFL: 0x00010206, EIP: 0x004095b9, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x00000010
Error code: 0x00000000
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x82ffbad8 : 0x12b0f7 (0x4581f4 0x82ffbb0c 0x133230 0x0)
0x82ffbb28 : 0x1a8c8a (0x461720 0x4095b9 0xe 0x460ed0)
0x82ffbc08 : 0x19ece5 (0x82ffbc20 0x1 0x82ffbcc8 0x4095b9)
0x82ffbc18 : 0x4095b9 (0xe 0x10048 0xbbb0010 0x3e0010)
0x82ffbcc8 : 0x40960c (0xc09de00 0xbbdf900 0x1 0xc09de00)
0x82ffbce8 : 0x40d648 (0xc09de00 0xc09dd00 0x0 0x3ea76c)
0x82ffbd38 : 0x40d7fb (0xc09dd00 0x4 0x0 0xb6dde00)
0x82ffbd58 : 0x84047d77 (0xc09dd00 0xc09dd00 0xbda3760 0x11a1d4)
0x82ffbdc8 : 0x8404bf21 (0xbb2c200 0x82ffbdfc 0x82ffbdf8 0xbb2c200)
0x82ffbe08 : 0x8404c236 (0xbb2c200 0x0 0x0 0xbb2c200)
0x82ffbe28 : 0x8404c2ba (0xbb2c200 0x840555a0 0x0 0x0)
0x82ffbe48 : 0x40fd82 (0xbb2c200 0xbbdf900 0x1 0x3ea740)
0x82ffbea8 : 0x411c17 (0xbbdf900 0xbb2c200 0xbbead40 0xbb46300)
0x82ffbf28 : 0x41147b (0xbbdf900 0xbbb66c0 0x0 0xffffffff)
0x82ffbf78 : 0x4100f7 (0xbbdf900 0x0 0x82ffbfac 0x1)
0x82ffbfc8 : 0x19eadc (0xbbddb40 0x0 0x1a20b5 0xb9445d0)
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.faronics.driver.DFXDriver(4.0.1f23)@0x84046000->0x8405afff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(3.0.8)@0x83483000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily(1.5.2)@0x8375f000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
9C7010
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.2: Tue Mar 4 21:17:34 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.4.31~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacPro2,1 (Mac-F4208DA9)

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Start with the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip.*
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It's safest to eject and disconnect it, "just in case."
3) After I reconnect TM disc after SL install, do I have to "migrate" stuff from TM? OR will it just do a new backup and work like normal from that point forward.
If you do the normal install, there's no migration needed. 99.9 % of everything will be fine. In some rare cases of 3rd-party apps putting things in unusual places, there may be a problem, and you may need to re-enter some 3rd-party app purchase codes.
If you erase the drive, then install SL, then yes, of course, you'll have to transfer your data. There should be no reason to do that, but some folks seem to do it out of habit. If you do that, when your Mac boots up again, you can transfer your data from the TM backups. And if you do that, I'd strongly recommend making a separate full backup on a second external drive, again "just in case," preferably a "bootable clone." CarbonCopyCloner and SuperDuper are the most common. (There was a post here just last week where someone did this, the restore got to 99%, then BAM! the TM disk failed.)
TM backups should just continue normally, although there will almost certainly be a long "Calculating Changes" phase (used to be called "Preparing"). And they've added a progress bar, which doesn't seem to be particularly accurate.
However, it may try a new, full backup. If it does, cancel the backup and do a Restart. That may reset whatever confused it. If not, there's nothing you can do to prevent it.
4) Will I be able to access files that were backuped when I have just Leopard?
Yes.

How do I connect both iMac (2011) hard drives to backup with Time Machine and Airport Time capsule?

Hi - my iMac has 2 hard drives, 250 Gb solid state and a 2 Tb drive. I'm backing up using time Machine to an Airport time Capsule but only the 250 Gb drive comes up in hte list? All my photos are on the 2 Tb drive (about 120GB worth) and I want a back up for these. I'm running under OS X 10.9.1 Maverick
Any help would be greatly appreaciated!

Ok.. I am surprised..
What did you format the 2TB drive.. I find it hard to imagine you formatted an internal drive anything but Mac OS extended journaled (HFS+) .. but you could have.
Time Machine can only backup HFS+ format drives.
Of course this Mavericks.. and in Mavericks the bugs rein supreme in Time Machine.
Reset TM setup.. See A4 here. http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
Make sure the 2TB drive is mounted when you redo the TM setup.
To be honest.. I would also buy CCC and do a full clone of the drive..
TM is great for the occasional file loss.. but it is lousy to restore a drive. CCC at the moment is $40 or so and IMHO money well spent.
http://www.bombich.com/
I use it but just to say I have no connection to them..

Time Machine and Airport HELP!!

Please help me...
I am trying to setup my Airport Extreme and USB connected external 1TB hard drive to be my Time Machine backup drive.
Its not working.
I tried setting it up, got it to mount just fine over the network, and it starts to backup just fine, and then it stops with an error message.
So, I tried to connect the hard drive directly to my computer and back it up directly, and that didn't work either.
What am I doing wrong?

Jolly Giant wrote:
in your initial post you said
adammabry wrote:
I tried setting it up, got it to mount just fine over the network, and it starts to backup just fine, and then it stops with an error message.
what's that error message ?
download and install the Time Machine Buddy. switch to dashboard and copy & paste the report in your next post.
Jolly Giant wrote:
in your initial post you said
adammabry wrote:
I tried setting it up, got it to mount just fine over the network, and it starts to backup just fine, and then it stops with an error message.
what's that error message ?
download and install the Time Machine Buddy. switch to dashboard and copy & paste the report in your next post.
Jolly Giant wrote:
in your initial post you said
adammabry wrote:
I tried setting it up, got it to mount just fine over the network, and it starts to backup just fine, and then it stops with an error message.
what's that error message ?
download and install the Time Machine Buddy. switch to dashboard and copy & paste the report in your next post.
Just tried to back up using a USB connection. Here was the message...
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Family/Backups.backupdb
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Adam Mabrys Disk
No pre-backup thinning needed: 105.01 GB requested (including padding), 915.00 GB available
Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /Library/Application Support/LiveType/LiveFonts/Pro Series/Bar.ltlf/data to (null)
Error: (-36) SrcErr:NO Copying /Library/Application Support/LiveType/LiveFonts/Pro Series/Bar.ltlf/data to /Volumes/Family/Backups.backupdb/Adam Mabry’s MacBook Pro 15" (2)/2009-12-11-002355.inProgress/A2D60FFD-B551-4B1C-B28B-50883FE1B69F/Adam Mabrys Disk/Library/Application Support/LiveType/LiveFonts/Pro Series/Bar.ltlf
Stopping backup.
Error: (-8062) SrcErr:NO Copying /Library/Application Support/LiveType/LiveFonts/Pro Series/Bar.ltlf/data to /Volumes/Family/Backups.backupdb/Adam Mabry’s MacBook Pro 15" (2)/2009-12-11-002355.inProgress/A2D60FFD-B551-4B1C-B28B-50883FE1B69F/Adam Mabrys Disk/Library/Application Support/LiveType/LiveFonts/Pro Series/Bar.ltlf
Copied 90 files (382.1 MB) from volume Adam Mabrys Disk.
Copy stage failed with error:11
Backup failed with error: 11

Mail, Time Machine and Snow Leopard

When I upgraded to Snow Leopard (fresh install), I exported my Address Book to a backup file. After the upgrade, I imported the backup to Address Book and all was well. However, I see that time machine freezes when looking for Address Book history within Time Machine. I see many days of backups for AB, but TM won't let me move back in time to see them. Also, when looking at AB in TM, I can't exit TM. It basically freezes. This only happens with the Address Book and TM.
Any solutions?

Here is the log:
2/2/10 1:04:30 PM com.apple.backupd[432] Network destination already mounted at: /Volumes/MyBook
2/2/10 1:04:31 PM com.apple.backupd[432] Disk image /Volumes/MyBook/R.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
2/2/10 1:04:32 PM mdworker[364] kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
2/2/10 1:04:33 PM Address Book[391] * -[NSCFString substringWithRange:]: Range or index out of bounds
2/2/10 1:04:35 PM Address Book[391] CoreAnimation: ignoring exception: * -[NSCFString substringWithRange:]: Range or index out of bounds
2/2/10 1:04:52 PM Address Book[391] * -[NSCFString substringWithRange:]: Range or index out of bounds

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