Time Machine Buddy: weird message after backup

Hello Pondini and all,
Note the last line in the Time Machine Buddy log messages.
The drive was not ejected. Any idea what this was about?
Starting post-backup thinning
No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Backup completed successfully.
Stopping backupd to allow ejection of backup destination disk!
Thanks,
harv47

Hello Pondini and all,
Note the last line in the Time Machine Buddy log messages.
The drive was not ejected. Any idea what this was about?
Starting post-backup thinning
No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Backup completed successfully.
Stopping backupd to allow ejection of backup destination disk!
Thanks,
harv47

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    I get the following message - "Time Machine could not complete the backup."  "Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder."" 
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    Reboot the TC.. Sometimes you need to reboot the whole network.
    This is what comes of Lion and then made worse in Mountain Lion of Apple not spending enough time to fix the bugs.
    Read C12 in pondini.
    http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
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    I keep getting this error message: Time Machine could not complete the backup.  'The backup disk image "/Volumes/FreeAgent Drive/xxx MacBook Pro.sparsebundle" is already in use.
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