TC Archive to External Hard Drive Frozen

I'm using the Airport Utility (v. 5.4.2) archive feature to back up 500G TC (mid 2008 purchase) to USB 2 connected Western Digital external hard drive with new 600+ GB partition created with Disk Utility. The TC is connected to i-MAC by ethernet cable. The Airport Utility "Archive disk status" thermometer has been frozen at 8.1 GB of 433.2GB in excess of 6 hrs). The TC continues blinking yellow and the external drive status light indicates it is in use. Time Machine big on/off switch is locked in off position as supposed to be. Since archive system seems frozen, what is the proper way to get out of this freeze without corrupting backup data on TC? Have crawled through the posts but see no-one has posted a like problem that is answered. Will appreciate help (new forum member).

Hello - Saw your thread and wanted to tell you what finally worked for me.
The USB drive that's attached to the TC needs to be formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
As soon as I did that, everything worked as it should. I can now start the "Archive" process and put my Mac to sleep, knowing that the process will continue between the TC and the USB drive.
I confirmed this with the AppleCare guy who's been helping me (he forwarded my solution to Tech Support and they said, yup, it's got to be Journaled). I also told him that I'd never seen this in any of the documentation I'd read.
So, for me anyway, it's case closed. Hopefully this helps someone else out there.
Andy

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sydababy wrote:
and then deleting them off of my computer.
BIG BIG MISTAKE ..... youre making a linchpin deathtrap for your data trying to shove everything on a single fragile HD.
Dont suffer the tragedy other people make, buy another or 2 more HD, theyre cheap as dust.
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