Problem with Time Machine

Of course, I don't know how time Machine works. I got a 1 TB drive connected to my iMac as I have owned and have never had a problem of backup. Now, I get a warning that says that there is not enough space on my 1 TB drive to back up a computer with, in total, less than 500 GB of information on it. It makes no sense at all. How a 1 TB drive can not have enough space to back up a computer with the hard drive has only about 480 GB of stuff on it?

And what do I do to fix this? Thank you.

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