Time Machine stuck while backing up

Time machine has worked fine since I set it up, but now it has not finished a backup since 4/16. Time Machine just sits there and says Backing Up: 4KB of 9.1GB. I have left it on for days and it never gets past this point. I have done some of the suggestions here. Turned off spotlight on the backup disk, ran disk Utility (with no issues), Repaired Permissions, I deselected my backup disk and then reselected it in Time Machine, and I do not have set the HD to go to sleep. I have download the Time Machine Buddy widget and this is what is says currently:
Starting standard backup
Mounted network destination using URL: afp://David%[email protected]/Backup
Backup destination mounted at path: /Volumes/Backup-1
Disk image /Volumes/Backup-1/David Grayson’s iMac_001ec214f4f7.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of David Grayson’s iMac
Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of David Grayson’s iMac/Backups.backupdb
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
Waiting for index to be ready (905 > 0)
Waiting for index to be ready (905 > 0)
Waiting for index to be ready (905 > 0)
Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:kFSEDBEventFlagMustScanSubDirs|kFSEDBEventFlagReasonEventDBUntrustable|
No pre-backup thinning needed: 12.40 GB requested (including padding), 58.98 GB available
Several previous messages say:
Starting standard backup
Backup destination alias resolved to path: /Volumes/Backup
Disk image /Volumes/Backup/David Grayson’s iMac_001ec214f4f7.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of David Grayson’s iMac
Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of David Grayson’s iMac/Backups.backupdb
No pre-backup thinning needed: 12.36 GB requested (including padding), 59.31 GB available
Stopping backupd to allow ejection of backup destination disk!
I think the last line is there when I shutdown the computer.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
David

Well I am not sure what I did (one log from Time Machine Buddy did mention having problems with a Logitech app, so I deleted it) but the backup worked last night. FYI, I did not run Disk Utility on the Backup Disk.
Thanks anyway.
David

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I am trying to help a client here to do an intial back up with her Time Machine and external HD but it kept on hung up every time.
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The time capsule drive is full, but I just assumed that Time Machine would erase the oldest backups and continue.
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Hi, I have a 27" iMac (mid-2011) and now Time Machine is not backing up. Actually I had turned it off, then forgot about it...so it was off for about 2 months. I read on some of these forums, when you do that...TIme Machine can be stuck in the "Preparing to Back up" phase for quite some time. To just let it go and it would be fine. But after several days, I have given up. It has not backed up in over a week now. Just spinning "Preparing to Back Up" only. Any suggestions what I should do? I have OS X Lion (10.7.3) and using a external HDD connected via USB (NOT Time Capsule).

Hi again Linc Davis,
I tried the "backupd" in the ALL MESSAGES under system log queries, and did manage to see:
18/3/12 8:48:31.277 PM mdworker: (Normal) Import: Using too many resources after 66432 files (wired: 0 resident: 19957 swapped: 2 regions: 2037), hit usage threshold importing /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Xxxx Xxxxxxの iMac/2012-01-15-141532/Macintosh HD/Users/xxxxxxxxxx/Library/Mail/V2/[email protected]/[Gmail].mbox/All Mail.mbox/84784BFD-487D-40BC-AC16-A441D3A8F331/Data/6/1/Messages/16497.4.emlxpa rt, exiting to clean up now.
18/3/12 8:53:20.761 PM mdworker: (Normal) Import: Using too many resources after 40576 files (wired: 0 resident: 20389 swapped: 2 regions: 2011), hit usage threshold importing /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/Xxxx Xxxxxx の iMac/2011-12-29-001513/Macintosh HD/Users/xxxxxxxxxx/Library/Mail/V2/[email protected]/Japan.mbox/84784BFD-487D-40BC-AC16-A441D3A8F331/Data/1/1/1/Messages/111994.emlx , exiting to clean up now.
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Does this help? Thanks again!

Meverckics time machine does not back up wiki

I am using a Mac Pro mid 2013 as a server for my team. I use it only for wiki (no other service like mail server or website host). I started using in October 2013. December 2013, the Time Machine informed me that it runs out of space (my working HD is 1 TB, at that time it is more than 500 Gb in use. The HD for Time Machine is 3TB). I just let the Time Machine keep running ( it said that it woud arrange to delete old backups to make room for new ones).
Yesterday, the wiki database is corrupted and I fully restore from TM. to my horror, the wiki is only restored to December 2013. Which means we lost the works of the last 6 months. I check the backup files in Time Machine and found out that the last wiki database (Library/Server/Wiki) was updated to December 2013 only, even though other files were updated to yesterday. I checked the TM preference and wiki database is not in list of files excluding from backing up.
My questions:
1. Does any one know why the Time Machine doesn't back up wiki while it backs up other files?
2. In future, how can I prevent this happen again?
3. Can I recover the works of last six months (in other words, does Mavericks server keep wiki database where else other than Library/Server/Wiki?
many thanks in advance!
infor:
Mac Pro mid 2013. 12Gb ram?
working HD: 1TB
time machine HD: 3TB
server service used: only wiki!

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