Backup errors in PSE 12 to External 2TB WD drive on Macbook Air

I have PSE12 installed on a Macbook Air using OSX 10.9.4 and I'm trying to back up to an external 2TB WD hard drive that I have backed up to before. I can see the drive and contents in finder but after 5 attempts to back up I keep getting an error writing file message. Does anyone have any ideas about why this is happening or how to fix it? Alternatively, if there is a better backup solution out there I would consider that too. Thank you in anticipation.

Thanks for the reply! I was, however, looking for some insight from someone who maybe had a similar setup going and successfully trouble shot this problem. As I said, my macbook pro works in this setup without any problem whatsoever...so while not technically supported, doesn't mean it's impossible.. or even difficult.

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