TS3243 My time machine back up freezes at a partial backup. I keep cancelling and restarting a new back up and it will again freeze up at a slightly different point. Last freeze shows 485bytes of 246.16 GB. My last backup was Sept. 1 !!!!! Help!!!!

Repeat: My time machine back up freezes at a partial backup. I keep cancelling and restarting a new back up and it will again freeze up at a slightly different point. Last freeze shows 485bytes of 246.16 GB. My last backup was Sept. 1 !!!!! Help!!!!
Also: am running OSX 10.6.8 on an iMac8,1
TimeMachine had be working well on a 1TB WD MyBook Ext. H.D. .
QUESTION: ANY SUGGESTIONS OR SOLUTIONS?????

See Pondini's TM FAQs for starters.

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Doesn't sound normal no..
Time Machine is its own unique way of doing things.
Verify the backup.
See A5 http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
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Hm... Many people read my post, but nobody came up with any suggestions so far
So I decided to fully erase my time machine drive by re-formatting it. I also did the full time machine reset (as described in the trouble shooting topic) and I re-started time machine.
The first run went as expected: Full backup of everything I didn't exclude:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Tachyon3/Backups.backupdb
Ownership is disabled on the backup destination volume. Enabling.
Backup content size: 1164.8 GB excluded items size: 611.4 GB for volume Enterprise1
Backup content size: 355.7 GB excluded items size: 14.3 GB for volume Enterprise2
Backup content size: 306.6 GB excluded items size: 46.3 MB for volume Enterprise3
No pre-backup thinning needed: 1.41 TB requested (including padding), 3.64 TB available
Waiting for index to be ready (101)
Copied 103.3 GB of 1201.4 GB, 311996 of 3022866 items
Copied 234.0 GB of 1201.4 GB, 481177 of 3022866 items
Copied 399.4 GB of 1201.4 GB, 482485 of 3022866 items
Copied 484190 files (543.2 GB) from volume Enterprise1.
Copied 552.1 GB of 1201.4 GB, 499974 of 3022866 items
Copied 707.9 GB of 1201.4 GB, 619307 of 3022866 items
Copied 856.6 GB of 1201.4 GB, 713178 of 3022866 items
Copied 814524 files (883.7 GB) from volume Enterprise2.
Copied 1014.9 GB of 1201.4 GB, 846954 of 3022866 items
Copied 1188.7 GB of 1201.4 GB, 864139 of 3022866 items
Copied 864441 files (1189.3 GB) from volume Enterprise3.
No pre-backup thinning needed: 368.43 GB requested (including padding), 2.47 TB available
Copied 969 files (4.9 MB) from volume Enterprise1.
Copied 992 files (4.9 MB) from volume Enterprise2.
Copied 172.2 GB of 305.7 GB, 41672 of 49964 items
Copied 50909 files (305.7 GB) from volume Enterprise3.
Starting post-backup thinning
No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Backup completed successfully.
BUT THEN CAME THE BAD SURPRISE: On the following backups time machine continued to execute full backups of 320 GB for the third volume again ...
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Tachyon3/Backups.backupdb
Node requires deep traversal:/Volumes/Enterprise3 reason:must scan subdirs|
No pre-backup thinning needed: 368.56 GB requested (including padding), 2.47 TB available
Copied 922 files (3.5 MB) from volume Enterprise1.
Copied 945 files (3.5 MB) from volume Enterprise2.
Copied 172.7 GB of 305.7 GB, 41644 of 49977 items
Copied 50862 files (305.7 GB) from volume Enterprise3.
No pre-backup thinning needed: 368.59 GB requested (including padding), 2.17 TB available
Copied 2198 files (3.9 MB) from volume Enterprise1.
Copied 2221 files (3.9 MB) from volume Enterprise2.
Copied 171.1 GB of 305.7 GB, 42843 of 50013 items
Copied 52138 files (305.7 GB) from volume Enterprise3.
Starting post-backup thinning
No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Backup completed successfully.
...and again...
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Tachyon3/Backups.backupdb
Node requires deep traversal:/Volumes/Enterprise3 reason:must scan subdirs|
No pre-backup thinning needed: 368.63 GB requested (including padding), 2.17 TB available
Copied 6064 files (23.4 MB) from volume Enterprise1.
Copied 6087 files (23.4 MB) from volume Enterprise2.
Copied 172.3 GB of 305.7 GB, 46769 of 49981 items
Copied 56004 files (305.7 GB) from volume Enterprise3.
No pre-backup thinning needed: 368.75 GB requested (including padding), 1.87 TB available
Waiting for index to be ready (100)
Waiting for index to be ready (100)
Waiting for index to be ready (100)
Waiting for index to be ready (100)
Copied 131 files (427 bytes) from volume Enterprise1.
Copied 154 files (427 bytes) from volume Enterprise2.
Copied 17241 files (58.5 GB) from volume Enterprise3.
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