Thanks for the reply.
The problem is my disk space issue was resolved already. I had set the backup to create a tar in /tmp instead of /backup/tmp simply deleting the tar file got me back on track
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 8.0G 5.3G 2.4G 69% /
proc 0 0 0 - /proc
sysfs 0 0 0 - /sys
devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts
/dev/sda2 95G 60G 30G 67% /opt
/dev/sda1 99M 34M 61M 36% /boot
/dev/sdb1 99G 14G 80G 15% /backup
tmpfs 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /dev/shm
none 0 0 0 - /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
sunrpc 0 0 0 - /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs
sda5 is only using 69%
but i still get the email messages from the day the actual error occured. (Oct 20th) its almost a month later
