Why has my data stopped backing up on Time Machine?

The Time Machine has been working fine and backing up data regularly, but on December 28th it started saying that the backup disk was unavailable. 

scalaman wrote:
The Time Machine has been working fine and backing up data regularly, but on December 28th it started saying that the backup disk was unavailable.
Where do you store your Backups? Do you store them on the USB Hard Drive connected to your Mac or on the Time Capsule? Or do you use different configuration?

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