Time Machine on Mavericks will not restart on network drive.

Hello,
I upgraded my Macbook Air and Mac Pro computers to Mavericks. I was backing up my Macbook Air using Time Machine onto a drive on the Mac Pro through a network connection. After I upgraded to Mavericks, I could not write to the existing Time Machine backup.
So I deleted the .sparsebundle file and started a fresh Time Machine backup and it was working fine. Then I had to disconnect the Macbook Air, and the next day tried to resume the backup. But now it won't work, I receive the message "The backup on Mac Pro is already in use."
Can someone help me please? I don't want to have to delete the backup (50% done) and start all over again.
Thanks.

Encountering a similar message. My MacBook Pro on Mavericks crashed (kernel panic) sometime overnight, apparently during a backup, and now I get 'Backup Failed: The backup on "storage: is already in use." ['storage' is the backup file server.] The details link from notification center adds, 'The backup disk image “/Volumes/TimeMachine/stefanie.sparsebundle” is already in use.'
Trying to mount the .sparsebundle from Finder earns:
stefanie.sparsebundle: Resource temporarily unavailable".
I get a similar message using 'hdiutil attach' from the command line; I am able to mount other backups from the same file server.
From the command line, I tried:
stefanie:/Volumes/TimeMachine$ hdiutil verify -verbose stefanie.sparsebundle
hdiutil: verify: processing "stefanie.sparsebundle"
CBSDBackingStore::newProbe directory, not a valid image file.
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface 0, score    -1000, CBSDBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface 1, score     1000, CBundleBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface 2, score    -1000, CRAMBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface 3, score    -1000, CCarbonBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface 4, score    -1000, CDevBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface 5, score    -1000, CCURLBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface 6, score    -1000, CVectoredBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface 0, score      100, CBSDBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface 1, score    -1000, CBundleBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface 2, score    -1000, CRAMBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface 3, score      100, CCarbonBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface 4, score    -1000, CDevBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface 5, score    -1000, CCURLBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface 6, score    -1000, CVectoredBackingStore
hdiutil: verify: unable to recognize "stefanie.sparsebundle" as a disk image. (Resource temporarily unavailable)
hdiutil: verify: result: 35
hdiutil: verify failed - Resource temporarily unavailable

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