TM Stuck on Finishing Backup

When backing up with TM, it seems like it backs up the files just fine, but it always stays on "Finishing Backup" for long periods of time, and it doesnt seem like the backup is truly finished.
Is anyone able to help me?

It's probably deleting "expired" backups. That shouldn't take more than a few minutes in most cases, but if you're backing-up over a network, it can take a while.
See #A1 in [Time Machine - Troubleshooting|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum), for a handy widget that will display the backup messages from your logs. Use it to look at the messages for one of the backups in question. If you see anything suspicious there, copy and post all the messages here.

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    I have been backing up wirelessly for roughly around 18 hours for about 30 gb worth of data. However, the backup does not finish but just stays stuck at "finishing backup". I've waited around 24 hours and the backup still says "finishing backup". So i click stop backing up. However, when i check my latest backup in time machine, it seems that the backup has completed. I try backing up again and its still stuck at "finishing backup", but when i click stop backup, the backup seems to be completed. My questions is why is this happening. Why does time machine say that is finishing backup when it has actually finished.

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    Message was edited by: Kevin Williams1

  • Time Capsule stuck in "Finishing Backup"......what to do?

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  • Finishing backup taking slightly too long!

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  • Hung on "Finishing Backup"

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  • IMAC stalls when performing a backup (finishing backup)

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  • Time Machine backup hangs on 'Finishing Backup'

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    4/6/09 3:03:58 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2141] Unable to rebuild path cache for source item. Partial source path:
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