Why are my workflows failing?

I have a workflow that should create or update a record in 1 list when the record in another list is updated.
if a new record is created in List A and criteria is met, a record will be created in List B. When the record in List A is updated, the record in List B should also be updated. However, often when the record is created in List A and the workflow kicks
off, it doesn't create the associated record in List B. So when someone updates the record in List A, the workflow fails because it can't find the record in List B. One of the steps in the workflow is to populate the record's ID# from List B back into
the record in List A. The record in List A will show the ID# from List B, but a record with that ID is not found in List B!
When i test the workflow, it works fine. When the workflow fails, I get the Error Occurred status so I manually stop the workflow and kick it off again, and it works fine. So why is it failing in daily use? Could it be a timing issue? could the
workflow take too long to run so it times out? if so, is there a way to speed it up or give it more time to run?
I am not a programmer - I just create workflows using Sharepoint Designer 2010 - using Set Field Actions, or if then conditions and a couple of calculations.

Put logs in the history list after the the code where you have created a record for List B.
Follow this link which will guide you to log in the history list which will help you debug this issue.
http://www.documentmanagementworkflowinfo.com/sample-sharepoint-workflows/use-log-to-history-list-sharepoint-designer-workflow-action-debug.htm

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I read Ed's thread and I understand about the timing of the Full (Incr Lvl 0) and the incrementals.
In my case I'm not doing any incrementals (Incr Lvl 1) of the database, just Incr Lvl 0 every day. I do the archivelog backups during the day to keep the /arch mount point under control.
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Whoops!!! Egg on my face! I just checked back in my email logs of the backups and now recall there were some disk space issues around that time that caused the backups to fail and it just so happens that the backups on the 20th, 21st and 22nd all failed.
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