How can I back up all of my macbook pro data to my USB if time machine is not functioning properly?

I attempted to back up my data from my macbook pro to my USB entirely through time machine. The first half hour was successful until It told me the backup was not able to happen and it completely stopped working from that point on. Is there any suggestions or other things I can do? I do not mind reformatting the USB or erasing everything from it, but I am not sure how to do that on the mac either.
Thanks again

make sure time machine is turned off in system preferences. (it won't let you erase the disk if time machine is still trying to access it)
open the disk utility from in your user account utilities, make sure you are in the erase tab and also make sure you have the whole HD selected (not the section for backups that may be indented under it) also make sure the disk is mounted (there is option at the top of the disk utility toolbar to mount the disk if necessary.
once you have done both of these, make sure that next to format it says mac OS extended journaled and then click the button that just says erase.
after it's done you should then be able to go into system prefs and turn the time machine back on and select the disk to start the backups again.
if it still won't let you erase or do anything w/ the external drive after these steps there may be issue w/ the HD itself that needs addressed

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