Time Machine works great and then.....................

Time Machine has worked great since December and now I get an error message which has happened five times since I upgraded to 10.5.3. The error message says, "backup failed with error: target volume is read-only". The Console says,"Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd196". Not sure why this continues to happen. Have 107.4GB remaining on the Maxtor 260 external HD. Any idea's?? HELP!!

Sorry for the wait:-( I opened the folder and the dates are May 2008. I am just wondering where the documents from December - May are? Why can't I see the Time Machine dates between December and May? Why would any back up material expire? Why would Time Machine "remove" any data that's supposed to be backed up? Here's what I posted on another forum, without result....
Time Machine has worked excellent from December to May, without incident. The first week in May I started to get error messages that the backup volume was too large for the existing GB available. It was saying that it required 108.0GB but that only 107.4GB was available. The external HD is 250GBs and there's NO way that it's full. Then the backups just stopped. I added programs to the "do not back up list", to no avail. The back ups just stopped. The error messages said something about "read only". Then one day, they started again. I cannot figure out why. THEN, I opened Time Machine to find that ALL the history from December to May was gone!!!! Where I used to be able to click on any date on the sidebar in Time Machine and go to that day, to see what was backed up....I cannot do this any longer! ALL the back up is gone! Where did ALL this back up go? What the heck happened?? Now Time Machine says," 206.1GB available of 232.8GB" Cannot figure out what happened?? Any ideas??

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Cheers
James

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Hi All,
I've scoured the net for clues, but no love.
I've set up a new external drive for TimeMachine. I created a single partition with Disk Utility, formatted as HFS+ and told TM to use it for backups.
Clicked go. Yay! Lots of data cruising along and after a short while 40GB of the 90GB backup is copied over.
And then it stops... almost. Now it copies new data over at about 1mb per minute. Checked "top" and very little activity going on. Checked console and it reports no failures of backupd and in fact backupd uses a bit of CPU time every minute or so.
In the last hour, about 80mb of data has been copied. I've opened the backup package file and am watching as each new file is copied over.
I've shut everything down more than once and restarted. When I tell it to back up, it knows where it left off... does a lot of disk churning and then begins it's crawling copy again.

Thanks for the replies. I've read about how it starts slow and later gets into a groove and picks up, but mine starts fast and flies along nicely and then grinds to a halt. I can open the package file and watch as a new file (say a 5mb video clip) gets backed up every minute or so.
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