TimeMachine stuck at 140kb of 80GB?

Hey,
my TimeMachine does not work anymore. This problem occurs on a late 2013 iMac, "fullyequipped", and my TimeMachine with 2TB of storage.
I've already verified the disk as mentioned in a couple of other threads around the internet, but this did not solve my problem.
The widget "TimeMachine Buddy" shows me the following log:
Property list invalid for format: 200 (property lists cannot contain NULL)
Property list invalid for format: 200 (property lists cannot contain NULL)
Starting automatic backup
Backing up to /dev/disk4: /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
Deep event scan at path:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
Finished scan
Not using file event preflight for Macintosh HD
Found 1080849 files (78,5 GB) needing backup
97,15 GB required (including padding), 259,99 GB available
Copied 53657 items (430 KB) from volume Macintosh HD. Linked 190751.
Backup canceled.
I've canceled the backup after ~12 hours.
What am I missing here?

Reboot and try again.

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