Time Machine backup gets stuck - Please help

Question

Hi all,
I'm backing up my MBP via ethernet to a Time Capsule. The incremental backups take forever and are driving me nuts. The backups seem to be getting stuck midway. The disk sounds like it's spinning but the progress bar doesn't move. Also, it seems to be copying over too many files every hour, like >60000 or so (log below). I doubt that so many files get modified every hour.
I've tried everything (I could think of and find on the discussion boards) like deleting the sparsebundle, deleting the entire backup drive, playing with the backup frequency, nothing works.
Please help!!
Thanks,
DB
11/27/08 10:02:57 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[7045] Starting standard backup
11/27/08 10:02:57 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[7045] Network mountpoint /Volumes/TC Backup Disk not owned by backupd... remounting
11/27/08 10:02:57 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[7045] Network volume mounted at: /Volumes/TC Backup Disk-1
11/27/08 10:03:07 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[7045] Disk image /Volumes/TC Backup Disk-1/Dhiren's MBP_002332d43774.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of Dhiren's MBP
11/27/08 10:03:07 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[7045] Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of Dhiren's MBP/Backups.backupdb
11/27/08 10:04:39 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[7045] No pre-backup thinning needed: 570.5 MB requested (including padding), 426.79 GB available
11/27/08 10:14:44 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[7045] *_Copied 87124 files_* (20.3 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
11/27/08 10:14:48 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[7045] No pre-backup thinning needed: 559.1 MB requested (including padding), 426.69 GB available
11/27/08 10:15:02 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[7045] Unable to rebuild path cache for source item. Partial source path:
11/27/08 10:15:02 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[7045] Error: (-39) SrcErr:YES Copying (null) to (null)
11/27/08 10:15:14 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[7045] Copied 1067 files (10.6 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
11/27/08 10:15:22 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[7045] Starting post-backup thinning
11/27/08 10:15:22 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[7045] No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
11/27/08 10:15:22 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[7045] Backup completed successfully.
11/27/08 10:15:26 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[7045] Ejected Time Machine disk image.
11/27/08 10:15:32 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[7045] Ejected Time Machine network volume.
11/27/08 10:15:32 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[7045] Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Message was edited by: dhiren9

Answer 1

The indication that the backup completed successfully is the best evidence that it did. If you want something more explicit, you can proceed as below.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Drag or copy — do not type — the following line into the Terminal window, then press return:
sudo tmutil compare
You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up.
The command will take at least a few minutes to run. Eventually some lines of output will appear below what you entered.
Each line that begins with a plus sign (“+”) represents a file that has been added to the source volume since the last snapshot was taken. These files have not been backed up yet.
Each line that begins with an exclamation point (“!”) represents a file that has changed on the source volume. These files have been backed up, but not in their present state.
Each line that begins with a minus sign (“-“) represents a file that has been removed from the source volume.
Files that you’ve excluded from backup, or that are excluded automatically, are ignored.
At the end of the output, you’ll get some lines like the following:
Added:
Removed:
Changed:
These lines show the total amount of data added, removed, or changed on the source(s) since the last snapshot.