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Regarding Time Machine Back-Up

Hi,


I am trying to do Time Machine back-up in my New MacBookPro 2020, I have purchased a new 2TB external Hard-disk (LaCie 2TB Mobile Drive USB3.1-C Silver : STHG2000400) but when I use Time machine I am getting the below error


There was an error preparing the Time machine backup disk “New Volume”

POSIX reports: The operation couldn’t be completed. Invalid argument


Please let me know how to fix this?


Regards

Lenin Christopher

Posted on Jul 31, 2020 3:33 AM

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Posted on Jul 31, 2020 4:20 AM

Hi,

Reformat external drive as APFS with DiskUtility could solve the issue.


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