Time machine won't back up, message appearing-"/Volumes/Alyssa McCulloch's Time Cap/Macintosh.sparsebundle"

message appearing-“/Volumes/Alyssa McCulloch's Time Cap/Macintosh.sparsebundle”, not sure what this means. Thanks for any ideas. I don't have a accessive amount of data saved in itunes etc. if this is the problem.

You might try a restart and then try to backup again.
Maybe these will help.
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