Time Machine fail backup to WD my book live

After upgraded to Mavericks, my time machine became fail when backup to WD. I unchecked the energy saver and excluded the spotlight as other topic said. It became faster when loading the "preparing backup". However it fails again with no error message. I checked the console,
17/11/13 5:50:19.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  connect to the server /Volumes/Work
17/11/13 5:50:19.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  Logging in with uam 8 /Volumes/Work
17/11/13 5:50:21.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  Restoring session /Volumes/Work
17/11/13 5:50:21.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  get the reconnect token
17/11/13 5:50:21.376 pm
KernelEventAgent[46]
tid 54485244 received event(s) VQ_NOTRESP (1)
17/11/13 5:50:21.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  already reconnected socketID 49 on /Volumes/SmartWare
17/11/13 5:50:21.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  get the reconnect token
17/11/13 5:50:21.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  already reconnected socketID 49 on /Volumes/Public
17/11/13 5:50:21.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  already reconnected socketID 49 on /Volumes/OurFamily
17/11/13 5:50:21.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  already reconnected socketID 49 on /Volumes/TimeMachine-1
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kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  already reconnected socketID 49 on /Volumes/iTunes
17/11/13 5:50:21.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  get the reconnect token
17/11/13 5:50:21.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  get the reconnect token
17/11/13 5:50:21.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  get the reconnect token
17/11/13 5:50:21.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  get the reconnect token
17/11/13 5:50:21.431 pm
KernelEventAgent[46]
tid 54485244 received event(s) VQ_NOTRESP (1)
17/11/13 5:50:21.431 pm
KernelEventAgent[46]
tid 54485244 received event(s) VQ_NOTRESP (1)
17/11/13 5:50:27.000 pm
kernel[0]
AppleBCM5701Ethernet [en0]: Link down (womp disabled, proxy idle)
17/11/13 5:50:28.923 pm
configd[17]
network changed: v4(en0-:192.168.2.109) DNS- Proxy-
17/11/13 5:50:28.926 pm
mDNSResponder[40]
DeregisterInterface: Frequent transitions for interface en0 (192.168.2.109)
17/11/13 5:50:28.928 pm
netbiosd[2508]
network_reachability_changed : network is not reachable, netbiosd is shutting down
17/11/13 5:50:30.983 pm
AddressBookSourceSync[2509]
[CardDAVPlugin-ERROR] -getPrincipalInfo:[_controller supportsRequestCompressionAtURL:https://kobevih%[email protected]/272359107/principal///kobevih%[email protected]/272359107/principal/] Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1009 "The Internet connection appears to be offline." UserInfo=0x7ffbc301ab20 {NSUnderlyingError=0x7ffbc0f2bed0 "The Internet connection appears to be offline.", NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=https://kobevih%[email protected]/272359107/principal///kobevih%[email protected]/272359107/principal/, NSErrorFailingURLKey=https://kobevih%[email protected]/272359107/principal///kobevih%[email protected]/272359107/principal/, NSLocalizedDescription=The Internet connection appears to be offline.}
17/11/13 5:50:30.984 pm
AddressBookSourceSync[2509]
[CardDAVPlugin-ERROR] -getPrincipalInfo:[_controller supportsRequestCompressionAtURL:https://kobaby%[email protected]/1684837769/principal///kobaby%[email protected]/1684837769/principal/] Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1009 "The Internet connection appears to be offline." UserInfo=0x7ffbc0e596e0 {NSUnderlyingError=0x7ffbc302b360 "The Internet connection appears to be offline.", NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=https://kobaby%[email protected]/1684837769/principal///kobaby%[email protected]/1684837769/principal/, NSErrorFailingURLKey=https://kobaby%[email protected]/1684837769/principal///kobaby%[email protected]/1684837769/principal/, NSLocalizedDescription=The Internet connection appears to be offline.}
17/11/13 5:50:38.000 pm
kernel[0]
ASP_TCP Disconnect: triggering reconnect by bumping reconnTrigger from curr value 11 on so 0xffffff80235ae530
17/11/13 5:50:38.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  doing reconnect on /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:50:38.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  soft mounted and hidden volume so do not notify KEA for /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:50:38.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  Max reconnect time: 60 secs, Connect timeout: 30 secs for /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:50:38.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  connect to the server /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:50:38.000 pm
kernel[0]
ASP_TCP asp_SetTCPQoS:  sock_settclassopt got error 57
17/11/13 5:50:38.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  connect on /Volumes/TimeMachine failed 51.
17/11/13 5:50:38.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  sleep for 1 seconds and then try again
17/11/13 5:50:39.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  connect to the server /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:50:39.000 pm
kernel[0]
ASP_TCP asp_SetTCPQoS:  sock_settclassopt got error 57
17/11/13 5:50:39.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  connect on /Volumes/TimeMachine failed 51.
17/11/13 5:50:39.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  sleep for 2 seconds and then try again
17/11/13 5:50:41.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  connect to the server /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:50:41.000 pm
kernel[0]
ASP_TCP asp_SetTCPQoS:  sock_settclassopt got error 57
17/11/13 5:50:41.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  connect on /Volumes/TimeMachine failed 51.
17/11/13 5:50:41.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  sleep for 4 seconds and then try again
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kernel[0]
Ethernet [AppleBCM5701Ethernet]: Link up on en0, 100-Megabit, Full-duplex, Symmetric flow-control, EEE enabled, Debug [796d,0321,0de1,0300,c5e1,0000]
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configd[17]
network changed: v4(en0+:192.168.2.109) DNS+ Proxy+ SMB
17/11/13 5:50:42.955 pm
mDNSResponder[40]
mDNS_RegisterInterface: Frequent transitions for interface en0 (FE80:0000:0000:0000:AA20:66FF:FE58:5E81)
17/11/13 5:50:42.955 pm
mDNSResponder[40]
mDNS_RegisterInterface: Frequent transitions for interface en0 (192.168.2.109)
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kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  connect to the server /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:50:45.000 pm
kernel[0]
ASP_TCP asp_SetTCPQoS:  sock_settclassopt got error 57
17/11/13 5:50:45.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  Logging in with uam 8 /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:50:45.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  Restoring session /Volumes/TimeMachine
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kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  Primary Reconnect failed 22 on /Volumes/TimeMachine
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kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  Secondary Reconnect disabled on /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:50:50.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  sleep for 8 seconds and then try again
17/11/13 5:50:58.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  connect to the server /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:50:58.000 pm
kernel[0]
ASP_TCP asp_SetTCPQoS:  sock_settclassopt got error 57
17/11/13 5:50:58.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  Logging in with uam 8 /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:50:59.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  Restoring session /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:51:04.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  Primary Reconnect failed 22 on /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:51:04.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  Secondary Reconnect disabled on /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:51:04.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  sleep for 10 seconds and then try again
17/11/13 5:51:14.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  connect to the server /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:51:14.000 pm
kernel[0]
ASP_TCP asp_SetTCPQoS:  sock_settclassopt got error 57
17/11/13 5:51:14.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  Logging in with uam 8 /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:51:14.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  Restoring session /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:51:19.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  Primary Reconnect failed 22 on /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:51:19.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  Secondary Reconnect disabled on /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:51:19.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  sleep for 10 seconds and then try again
17/11/13 5:51:29.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  connect to the server /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:51:29.000 pm
kernel[0]
ASP_TCP asp_SetTCPQoS:  sock_settclassopt got error 57
17/11/13 5:51:29.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  Logging in with uam 8 /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:51:29.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  Restoring session /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:51:34.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  Primary Reconnect failed 22 on /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:51:34.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  Secondary Reconnect disabled on /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:51:34.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  sleep for 10 seconds and then try again
17/11/13 5:51:44.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  connect to the server /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:51:44.000 pm
kernel[0]
ASP_TCP asp_SetTCPQoS:  sock_settclassopt got error 57
17/11/13 5:51:44.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  Logging in with uam 8 /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:51:44.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  Restoring session /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:51:49.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  Primary Reconnect failed 22 on /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:51:49.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  Secondary Reconnect disabled on /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:51:49.000 pm
kernel[0]
17/11/13 5:51:49.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect:  posting to KEA to unmount /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:51:49.000 pm
kernel[0]
ASP_TCP CancelOneRequest: cancelling slot 1 error 89 reqID 63420 flags 0x29 afpCmd 0x3C so 0xffffff80235ae530
17/11/13 5:51:49.000 pm
kernel[0]
ASP_TCP Disconnect: triggering reconnect by bumping reconnTrigger from curr value 12 on so 0xffffff80235ae530
17/11/13 5:51:49.674 pm
KernelEventAgent[46]
tid 54485244 received event(s) VQ_DEAD (32)
17/11/13 5:51:49.000 pm
kernel[0]
disk2s2: 0xc005 (UNDEFINED).
17/11/13 5:51:49.674 pm
KernelEventAgent[46]
tid 54485244 type 'afpfs', mounted on '/Volumes/TimeMachine', from '//admin@MyBookLive._afpovertcp._tcp.local/TimeMachine', dead
17/11/13 5:51:49.675 pm
KernelEventAgent[46]
tid 54485244 force unmount //admin@MyBookLive._afpovertcp._tcp.local/TimeMachine from /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:51:49.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_unmount: /Volumes/TimeMachine, flags 524288, pid 46
17/11/13 5:51:49.000 pm
kernel[0]
AFP_VFS afpfs_unmount: Open Fork, Byte Range Lock, or Close Fork still in progress 20 on /Volumes/TimeMachine
17/11/13 5:51:49.879 pm
KernelEventAgent[46]
tid 54485244 found 1 filesystem(s) with problem(s)
17/11/13 5:51:49.000 pm
kernel[0]
disk2s2: 0xc005 (UNDEFINED).
17/11/13 5:51:49.000 pm
kernel[0]
disk2s2: 0xc005 (UNDEFINED).
17/11/13 5:51:49.983 pm
com.apple.kextd[12]
/Volumes/Time Machine Backups: error opening /usr/standalone/bootcaches.plist: Input/output error.
17/11/13 5:51:50.000 pm
kernel[0]
hfs: set VeryLowDisk: vol:Time Machine Backups, freeblks:0, dangerlimit:25600
17/11/13 5:51:50.000 pm
kernel[0]
hfs: set VeryLowDisk: vol:Time Machine Backups, backingstore b_avail:0, tag:0
17/11/13 5:51:50.504 pm
KernelEventAgent[46]
tid 54485244 received event(s) VQ_LOWDISK, VQ_VERYLOWDISK (516)
17/11/13 5:51:50.504 pm
KernelEventAgent[46]
tid 54485244 type 'hfs', mounted on '/Volumes/Time Machine Backups', from '/dev/disk2s2', low disk, very low disk
17/11/13 5:51:51.548 pm
com.apple.backupd[2077]
Copied 142678 items (9.53 GB) from volume Macintosh HD. Linked 0.
17/11/13 5:51:51.000 pm
kernel[0]
disk2s2: 0xc005 (UNDEFINED).
17/11/13 5:51:51.977 pm
com.apple.backupd[2077]
Error writing to backup log.  NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
17/11/13 5:51:51.000 pm
kernel[0]
disk2s2: 0xc005 (UNDEFINED).
17/11/13 5:51:51.978 pm
com.apple.backupd[2077]
Error writing to backup log.  NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
17/11/13 5:51:51.000 pm
kernel[0]
disk2s2: 0xc005 (UNDEFINED).
17/11/13 5:51:51.978 pm
com.apple.backupd[2077]
Error writing to backup log.  NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
17/11/13 5:51:51.000 pm
kernel[0]
disk2s2: 0xc005 (UNDEFINED).
17/11/13 5:51:51.978 pm
com.apple.backupd[2077]
Error writing to backup log.  NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
17/11/13 5:51:51.000 pm
kernel[0]
disk2s2: 0xc005 (UNDEFINED).
17/11/13 5:51:51.979 pm
com.apple.backupd[2077]
Error writing to backup log.  NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
17/11/13 5:51:51.000 pm
kernel[0]
disk2s2: 0xc005 (UNDEFINED).
17/11/13 5:51:51.979 pm
com.apple.backupd[2077]
Error writing to backup log.  NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
17/11/13 5:51:51.000 pm
kernel[0]
disk2s2: 0xc005 (UNDEFINED).
17/11/13 5:51:51.979 pm
com.apple.backupd[2077]
Error writing to backup log.  NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
17/11/13 5:51:51.993 pm
com.apple.backupd[2077]
Backup canceled.
17/11/13 5:51:52.000 pm
kernel[0]
disk2s2: 0xc005 (UNDEFINED).
17/11/13 5:51:52.455 pm
com.apple.kextd[12]
/Volumes/Time Machine Backups: error opening /usr/standalone/bootcaches.plist: Input/output error.
17/11/13 5:51:52.000 pm
kernel[0]
hfs: unmount initiated on Time Machine Backups on device disk2s2
17/11/13 5:51:52.472 pm
com.apple.backupd[2077]
Ejected Time Machine disk image: /Volumes/TimeMachine/Macintosh.sparsebundle
17/11/13 5:51:52.473 pm
com.apple.backupd[2077]
[SnapshotUtilities mountPointForVolumeRef] FSGetVolumeInfo returned: -35
17/11/13 5:51:52.473 pm
com.apple.backupd[2077]
Failed to eject volume (null) (FSVolumeRefNum: -116; status: -35; dissenting pid: -1)
Do anyone know what to do?

I traveled for a few months w/o my backup system available, but it ran fine for 2 days upon returning home. I have 2 MacBook Pros I run Time Machine backups over my network to a Western Digital MyBook attached to an Airport Extreme.
I started seeing Time Machine failures a few days ago, and noticed that my drive was spontaneously disconnecting, it seemed to happen right after TM had run through its process to identify files needing backup. It generated a generic error 11 in console, but more specically
hfs: unmount initiated on Time Machine Backups on device disk2s2
In efforts to clean it up I installed new firmware on the drive and ran the Verify backup from If you can't back up or restore your Mac using Time Machine -
I let it for a while as its doing a full backup but it has not stopped like before with the "backup failed message".

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