Time Machine: Repeated errors when backing up for the first time using a new external firewire drive

My Iomega 500GB firewire external drive failed on me last week and I have just replaced it with an identical model. I used to use the old drive with Time Machine on my MacBook Pro running 10.5.8 with no issues, until the drive had a hardware failure and stopped spinning up, hence the replacement.
Two days ago I tried using Time Machine for the first time with the replacement external drive. The backup failed and each subsequent backup attempt has failed since then with a different error each time. The drive cannot be ejected using Finder (Finder says disk is in use and cannot be ejected even when no processes are running except for Finder and Time Machine has been disabled), by dragging it to the dock (hangs computer which can only be fixed by a hard reboot), in Disk Utilities (drive cannot be unmounted) or in Terminal ("no such file or directory").
The first backup attempt failed after 3 hours of "preparing" with the message "The backup was not performed because an error occured while creating backup directory".
I tried repairing the disk in Disk Utilities and Disk Utilities said the drive was OK ("the volume Time Machine Backups appears to be OK"). I tried ejecting the drive (hard reboot of computer and disconnecting the drive), plugging it back in again and trying again.
This time it started backing up, then failed after a few minutes with the message "an error occured while copying files to the backup volume". I had a look at the troubleshooting suggested on http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/C3.html and followed instructions. It failed again, so I did a full reset as per http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/A4.html.
It failed again, so I tried reparing the drive again in Disk Utilities and again it said it was OK. I tried using different cables and ports (Firewire 400 instead of Firewire 800), and backups still fail.
I have turned off anti-virus scanning (Sophos). I have tried excluding it from Spotlight but this causes an error message from Spotlight. I have tried trashing the com.apple.TimeMachine.plist file and rebooting. I have tried selecting deselecting the drive as the back up in Time Machine preferences, selecting "None", then "Stop Backing Up" then quitting preferences, rebooting, disconnecting the drive, reconnecting the drive and selecting the drive again as the backup disk in Time Machine preferences. I have tried erasing the drive completely, rebooting, and trying to back up again.
None of these have worked. This is a brand new drive and I do not want to have to replace it again if I do not have to.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you.

Hello, some possible clues...
Should you click “Start New Backup”? Not yet! If you see the dialog above, your existing Time Machine backup is corrupt, and you might not be able to recover data from it. But you can save a copy of the corrupt bundle and, perhaps, extract some data from it if needed.
Ask yourself if Time Machine has saved data you might need before deciding what to do next:
If you are sure you won’t need anything backed up before today, click “Start New Backup” and let Time Machine do its thing.
Otherwise, click “Back Up Later” and save a copy before letting Time Machine start a new backup. Just look for a file called “computername.sparsebundle” (for network backups) or “Backups.backupdb” (for local ones) and create a copy with a different name. You can open sparsebundle files with DiskImageMounter and browse them like any other disk. More information is available here.
There you go. If you click “Start New Backup” when you see this dialog box, Time Machine will erase all of your old backup data and start a new bundle. It won’t be corrupt, but it will be empty.
Note that you can manually initiate a Time Machine backup integrity check by option-clicking the “Time Machine” icon in the menu bar and selecting “Verify Backups.”
http://blog.fosketts.net/2010/08/11/time-machine-completed-verification-backups- improve-reliability-time-machine-create-backup/
According to This Time Machine resource “This appears only on Snow Leopard, and started with the Time Capsule Backup Update 1.0 in mid-May of 2010. It also seems to have been included in the 10.6.3 v1.1 update and 10.6.4.”
So, what can you do about it? Grin and bear it, it seems, until Apple fixes it.
One thing you can do to make the backup take less time is to connect your machine to your Time Capsule or other backup drive via Ethernet for the duration of the initial backup.
http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/the-dreaded-time-machine-has-completed-a-verifi cation-of-your-backups-to-improve-reliability-time-machine-must-create-a-new-ba c kup-for-you-message-and-why-you-are-seeing-it/
Time Machine: About "Time Machine completed a verification of your backups. To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you."...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4076
Or a different/better solution in my experiences...
Get carbon copy cloner to make an exact copy of your old HD to the New one...
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
Or SuperDuper...
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/
Or the most expensive one & my favorite, Tri-Backup...
http://www.tri-edre.com/english/products/tribackup.html

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Time Machine - Repeated errors while making first backup

I have been trying to use Time Machine on my MacBook Pro for the first time with no success. I’ve tried probably about 10 times and each time it tells me “the backup was not performed because an error occurred while copying files to the backup disk”
I’ve downloaded Time Machine Buddy, and this is the report for the two most recent backups that failed:
First failed backup:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb
Error parsing SystemMigration.log to determine source volume of system migration.
No pre-backup thinning needed: 46.70 GB requested (including padding), 279.58 GB available
Stopping backup.
Error: (-41) SrcErr:NO Copying /Users/Gina/Documents/Teaching/English 110.01/Lesson Plans/AU06-WI07 Lesson Plans/Day 1 Lesson Plan.pages/Contents/PkgInfo to /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Gina Gemmel’s MacBook Pro/2010-11-29-222031.inProgress/751E22E6-9980-486F-83ED-1A6FE3585559/Macintosh HD/Users/Gina/Documents/Teaching/English 110.01/Lesson Plans/AU06-WI07 Lesson Plans/Day 1 Lesson Plan.pages/Contents
Copied 1114 files (5.2 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Copy stage failed with error:11
Backup failed with error: 11
Second failed backup
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb
Error parsing SystemMigration.log to determine source volume of system migration.
No pre-backup thinning needed: 46.70 GB requested (including padding), 274.35 GB available
Stopping backup.
Error: (-41) SrcErr:NO Copying /Users/Gina/Documents/Teaching/English 110.01/Lesson Plans/AU06-WI07 Lesson Plans/Day 1 Lesson Plan.pages/Contents/PkgInfo to /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Gina Gemmel’s MacBook Pro/2010-11-29-222031.inProgress/5E5FBA96-AF24-4D99-ADE4-650DFA08CEA2/Macintosh HD/Users/Gina/Documents/Teaching/English 110.01/Lesson Plans/AU06-WI07 Lesson Plans/Day 1 Lesson Plan.pages/Contents
Copied 496 files (836.6 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Copy stage failed with error:11
Backup failed with error: 11
The messages look the same. In between these two backups, I followed the steps in C3 in the Troubleshooting guide.
Prior to following the steps in C3, I tried:
-restarting my computer
-doing a reset of Time Machine by deleted the preferences list from the library
-repairing the drive using disk utility (it said there were no problems)
-verifying my internal drive (again, no problems)
-erasing the disk and starting over (this is my first backup, so I don’t have any prior information that would have gotten deleted)
-verifying that I’m using the correct formats – I’m definitely using the GUID format and Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format for my drive
-excluding folders that contained files that seemed to be associated with the errors. At first, they all seemed to be files in my husband’s backup folders, some of which were empty system folders from Windows. I thought this might be the issue, so I just excluded his backup folders to see if I could get it to work. The most recent failure seems to have involved a Pages file, though, so that theory was out the window.
-using a different USB port
I’m using a Seagate 320GB internal SATA drive that I’ve put in an enclosure to make it external, so it connects via USB. I’ve read here that external SATA drives won’t work with Time Machine, but I don’t think this applies to my situation since it’s an internal drive that’s connecting via USB with the enclosure. I have a MacBook Pro with the latest version of OSX.
I’m thinking maybe I need to get a new hard drive, but wanted to check here before spending any more money.
Message was edited by: Sibilance7

Yes, I meant to say folders had been transferred back and forth. I deleted that DS_Store file, and while doing so, I noticed that it was listed as a Unix Executable file, while most of the others were just listed as documents, and that it changed to document when it re-created itself after I deleted it. So I found all the ones that were listed as unix executable files and deleted them, letting them re-create themselves as documents. Then I tried to backup again, but no dice:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backup/Backups.backupdb
Error parsing SystemMigration.log to determine source volume of system migration.
No pre-backup thinning needed: 58.99 GB requested (including padding), 283.32 GB available
Stopping backup.
Error: (-41) SrcErr:NO Copying /Users/Gina/Documents/Dropbox/Teaching/Literature/English 200/Student Writing/Haroun Drafts/Second Section/done/.DS_Store to /Volumes/Time Machine Backup/Backups.backupdb/Gina Gemmel’s MacBook Pro/2010-12-12-185125.inProgress/C1BCA9C0-5727-46D1-980E-B4918B5977CC/Macintosh HD/Users/Gina/Documents/Dropbox/Teaching/Literature/English 200/Student Writing/Haroun Drafts/Second Section/done
Copied 1015 files (700.8 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Copy stage failed with error:11
Backup failed with error: 11
I excluded that folder and tried again, but got an error on another DS_Store file:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backup/Backups.backupdb
Error parsing SystemMigration.log to determine source volume of system migration.
No pre-backup thinning needed: 59.00 GB requested (including padding), 282.61 GB available
Stopping backup.
Error: (-41) SrcErr:NO Copying /Users/Gina/Documents/Misc/Ben's Backup/iTunes/iTunes Music/Music/Aireline/.DS_Store to /Volumes/Time Machine Backup/Backups.backupdb/Gina Gemmel’s MacBook Pro/2010-12-12-185125.inProgress/DE6590AB-A82A-4BE0-A38E-E6D7BDFE39FA/Macintosh HD/Users/Gina/Documents/Misc/Ben's Backup/iTunes/iTunes Music/Music/Aireline
Copied 3099 files (1.6 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Copy stage failed with error:11
Backup failed with error: 11
So excluded both of those folders, and then I got this:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backup/Backups.backupdb
2010-12-21 21:39:37.870 FindSystemFiles[37237:907] Looking for system packages
2010-12-21 21:39:42.927 FindSystemFiles[37237:907] Using system path cache.
Error parsing SystemMigration.log to determine source volume of system migration.
No pre-backup thinning needed: 58.99 GB requested (including padding), 280.04 GB available
Stopping backup.
Error: (-41) SrcErr:NO Copying /Users/Gina/Documents/Misc/Computer Stuff/Installation Stuff/2fingerscroll/ALPS Glidepad Driver.pkg/Contents/Archive.bom to /Volumes/Time Machine Backup/Backups.backupdb/Gina Gemmel’s MacBook Pro/2010-12-12-185125.inProgress/C638FC3D-E2D8-4840-84E3-63D553E123D8/Macintosh HD/Users/Gina/Documents/Misc/Computer Stuff/Installation Stuff/2fingerscroll/ALPS Glidepad Driver.pkg/Contents
Copied 1383 files (4.6 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Copy stage failed with error:11
Backup failed with error: 11
Excluded the folder that was in and got this:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backup/Backups.backupdb
2010-12-21 22:14:43.210 FindSystemFiles[37464:907] Looking for system packages
2010-12-21 22:14:48.647 FindSystemFiles[37464:907] Using system path cache.
Error parsing SystemMigration.log to determine source volume of system migration.
No pre-backup thinning needed: 59.01 GB requested (including padding), 270.81 GB available
Stopping backup.
Error: (-41) SrcErr:NO Copying /Users/Gina/Documents/Miscellaneous/Benjamine/ATS/ATS 2006-2007/Fall 2006/Christian History I/Aya_sofya.jpg to /Volumes/Time Machine Backup/Backups.backupdb/Gina Gemmel’s MacBook Pro/2010-12-12-185125.inProgress/BAB3CD73-3F0C-457E-816C-863AE4CC546E/Macintosh HD/Users/Gina/Documents/Miscellaneous/Benjamine/ATS/ATS 2006-2007/Fall 2006/Christian History I
Copied 1570 files (1.2 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Copy stage failed with error:11
Backup failed with error: 11
So, it just keeps having errors and doesn't seem to respond to much of anything. I did the same processes I outlined above with this drive - repaired it, verified internal disk, reset Time Machine, etc. Nothing seems to work, so I'm guessing at this point I need to make a visit to the Genius Bar.

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