I used a G-drive external hard drive for back-up.  I unplugged it and plugged it back in and now it isn't working, no back up is happening.  Any ideas ?

External backup not working after unplugging

You cannot just unplug a mounted drive, you must first Eject the drive, then disconnect it.
Attach the drive, then open Disk Utility.  The drive should appear in the left-side panel in a dimmed mode.  Highlight the dimmed drive, then in the DU menu bar select Mount.
That should then mount the drive and make it useable again.

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