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10.5: Time machine, corrupt sparse images, and panics
Authored by: lemoose on Thu, May 29 2008 at 2:57AM PDT

I had the same problem after a power outage while the backup was running... I found out doing what you describe and then repairing the sparsebundle using Disk Utility did fix the whole thing... I'm describing the whole process here:
<a href="http://blog.hardmac.com/archives/how-i-saved-my-corrupted-time-machine-sparsebundle-image">; How I saved my corrupted Time Machine sparsebundle image… </a>

Thanks for your help.