Call Doc Brown, there is something wrong with the De Lorean

I've been using my Leopard's new Time Machine for backing up my Macbook Pro for the past two months with no problems. The other day during a routine back up I got the message "Time Machine Error, Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup directory." By the way, I'm using a 1TB Time Capsule to perform my Time Machine Backups.

Picked up the phone and called Apple Support. Here are the steps.

1. Shutdown my Mac
2. Unplug the Time Capsule (why no on/off switch?)
3. Launch Disk Utility (Go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utilities )
4. Open Finder (or double click hard drive)
5. On the Left side you should see you Time Capsule, select it, if necessary click connect as and login.
6. Open up your back up folder and you should see a dot sparsebundle file. Click and drag that over to the left side of the Disk Utility.
7. Select the Time Capsule in the Disk Utility and click repair disk.

 

Now here is the interesting thing. While I waited hours for this repair to take place I launched my VMWare Fusion running Windows 2003 and got the blue screen of death. A message appeared that asked to shutdown windows and allow it to run chksum. I shutdown windows from VMWare after running chksum windows booted fine.

 

I have no idea if the VMWare crash was related to the Time Machine error, but it is possible.

 

After the Disk Repair completed, Time Machine is up and running again.