Time Capsule backup problem

Hello. I'm having a problem when backing up to my TC. It worked fine after 4 calls with apple care and eventually resetting it over and over. But then for some reason the Sparsebundel got corrupted and I need to start al over again. But ofcourse, it is not working, again. This is the error message on the console:
Starting standard backup
Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://Lars%[email protected]/data
Mounted network destination using URL: afp://Lars%[email protected]/data
Creating disk image /Volumes/data/jarvis.sparsebundle
GetMasterBlock: Error 6 from read; amount=-1, wanted=512
mount_hfs: Device not configured
Error 1 creating backup disk image
Failed to create disk image /Volumes/data/jarvis.sparsebundle, status: 1
Backup failed with error: 20
SnapshotUtilities mountPointForVolumeRef FSGetVolumeInfo returned: -35
Failed to eject volume (null) (FSVolumeRefNum: -104; status: -35; dissenting pid: -1)
I don't know why It doesn't work.
Kind regards,
Lars

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