TM has been preparing bkup for 4 days?

What is the deal? I moved to the MacPro at work and ever since setting it up I haven't been able to get a backup from TM to even start. I just sits there and has been for days saying it is "preparing". I know it is suppose to take a while for the first back up to start, but 3-4 days? What am I doing wrong?
I have 2 drive in the machine, on as the system and one partitioned as a storage drive and the TM backup. Both drives are Seagate 750gb and the one that is partitioned is just cut in half. Is there a trick I don't know about.....

CCGIANTS wrote:
Yeah I tried all the methods associated with my specific problem. I'm not quite sure what you mean by my "setup". What time of information do you need? I have an iMac G5 PPC running 10.5.8. I use an external IOMEGA 500gb external hard drive connected by USB. I have had this drive for 2 years plugged into the same port, with the same cord, and haven't changed any settings. I turn it on everyday to perform backups, which is does flawlessly.
That's usually not a good idea. TM usually works best if you let it do it's hourly backups. If they seem too large, see item # D4 of the Troubleshooting Tip. If they take too long, see item #D2 there.
Modern disk drives are designed to run all the time; some makers say they'll last longer if they're not turned on and off.
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:kFSEDBEventFlagMustScanSubDirs|kFSEDBEventFlagReasonEventDBUntrustable|"
See #C2 in the Troubleshooting Tip for an explanation of those two messages. Something abnormal has caused them (as explained there, once they start, you'll see them, and a long "preparing" phase, until a backup completes successfully).
You can find my destination volume location and the error message below it.
What do you mean by that? Below what? Is there another message after the "deep traversal"? If so, what?
UPDATE: While I was writing this I was running repair disk on my external time machine drive. It says "invalid sibling link" followed by "Rebuilding Catalog-B Tree". I'm not sure what this means but it has a few minutes left on it so I'll repost if it's able to repair.
If DU can't repair it, run it again (and again) until it either fixes everything or can't fix any more. If it can't fix them all, post back and we'll go farther.
You might as well be warned, your drive may be failing. They all do, sooner or later.

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