Many thanks to John Gruber and his friend Nat for posting a suggestion on how to fix the nasty bug that crashes OS X when using Time Machine to a Time Capsule to back up your Mac.
I used Airport Utility to enable File Sharing under the Disks menu. Then Disk Utility to “repair” the sparse disk image of the laptop that would crash every time I tried to back up with Time Machine. I am happy it worked like a champ, and Time Machine incremental backups are working again.
I still use Carbon Copy Cloner and a USB drive to back up my whole drive as a bootable image, and that is what I did while this bug impacted me. I suspect the partition on the Time Capsule became corrupt in a power outage we had earlier this Spring.
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Dare I wonder why you’re not running on a UPS with good surge protection?
I am, but the power was out for a long time; UPS batteries eventually gave out. The older UPS I have in the basement with the Time Capsule, cable modem, router/firewall, and switch only has signaling software for Windows 3.1 (which I’ve never used). So all those devices get powered off hard unless I am home to manually shut them down when power goes out.
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