Error when using 2nd external drive

When I went to use Time machine on a 2nd external drive the following error came up:
+You do not have appropriate access privileges to save file “.0016cba062f1” in folder “Backup”.+
I rebooted and then erased the drive and redid the time machine backup, but now the 1st drive has the same error when trying to reassign as the TM backup. I have successfully done this a few times in the past, but no go today.
Anyone have any ideas on what to do with this? Thanks.

this is a bug introduced by 10.5.6 update. see this thread for a workaround.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8668421

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Support of a feature means that it's gone though the full QA and
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Feature may work well even if it's not supported. It just means you use
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news:[email protected]..
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Sorry but this is just a really bad idea.
1. The airport is ancient.. your speed will be terrible.
2. Hubs filled with USB drives are never reliable.. disks refuse to spin up.. become unavailable.
No.. don't do it.
Plug USB3 hub into the mini and use multiple decent hard drives .. that is fine.. use thunderbolt hub.. use thunderbolt drives if you can afford it.. but never use USB drives on the network.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5168 Although mostly about FAT32           it adds network drives.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1198
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news:[email protected]...
Hi,
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THIS IS the driver directory
Verified $ORACLE_SID.
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Verified write permissions.
Verified formsweb.cfg read permissions.
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Copyright (c) 1997, 2008, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Used parameter files:
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SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.7.0 - Production on Thu Dec 19 10:46:18 2013
Copyright (c) 1982, 2008, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Enter password:
Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production
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64 bytes from test-rms-db.vonmaur.vmc (192.168.1.140): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.168 ms
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64 bytes from test-rms-db.vonmaur.vmc (192.168.1.140): icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.135 ms
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5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4001ms
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Linux test-rms-app.vonmaur.vmc 2.6.18-128.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 21 08:45:05 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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Enterprise Linux Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Carthage)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga)
[oracle@test-rms-app application]$
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