Time Capsule stopped backing up when I upgraded to Mountain Lion

Time Machine, with auto backup to Time Capsule was working fine until I upgraded to Mountain Lion. I'm currently on 10.8.2.
My Time Capsule is called "Center Of The Universe." When the computer tried to backup, I get a message saying Time Machine couldn't complete the backup to "Center Of The Universe." The backup disk image "/Volumes/Data/Erich Bergen's MacBook Pro 15" (2). sparsebundle" is already in use.
Any ideas for what is causing this?

Here is what it lists
11/21/11 10:00:05.599 AM com.apple.backupd: 292.68 GB required (including padding), 1.57 TB available
11/21/11 10:00:05.600 AM com.apple.backupd: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
11/21/11 11:00:10.116 AM com.apple.backupd: Copied 24.2 GB of 243.9 GB, 517405 of 886057 items
11/21/11 12:00:10.938 PM com.apple.backupd: Copied 72.3 GB of 243.9 GB, 533240 of 886057 items
11/21/11 1:00:14.276 PM com.apple.backupd: Copied 120.1 GB of 243.9 GB, 691935 of 886057 items
11/21/11 2:00:18.589 PM com.apple.backupd: Copied 188.4 GB of 243.9 GB, 698137 of 886057 items
11/21/11 2:47:19.620 PM com.apple.backupd: Copied 870473 files (237.8 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
11/21/11 2:47:26.827 PM com.apple.backupd: 2.84 GB required (including padding), 1.34 TB available
11/21/11 2:47:49.494 PM com.apple.backupd: Copied 3688 files (353 KB) from volume Macintosh HD.
It never finishes the last 353 KB - it sits there for hours saying finishing backup.

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