Back up Question when using backup not Time Machine

Hi there, I currently have my Time capsule configured as a file server sharing my files between 3 macs on the TC's wifi and also via the back to my mac service, while outside my home. The 3 macs connected also use the TC as the time machine back up disk. This setup works fine but I have concerns about reports that TC's can just die and the files contained on it could be lost. To combat this I have set my macbook to perform a backup using the backup program once a day. This is set to backup the whole TC excluding the 3 Time capsule files to an external firewire disk. The problem seems to occur after about a day or two, when the backup program reports a failed backup due to not enough disk space but I don't understand this as the external firewire disk has enough space unless it is trying to carry out a complete backup again. Once the initial backup is done (about 6 hours) I can manually trigger a backup which completes in a matter of seconds and is labelled on the firewire disc as incremental and contains a few mb. Can any one explain this to me? and any posable fixes.
Cheers
Here are the figures.
TC = 500GB
TC Files= 87GB (Excluding the 3 TM backups)
Firewire drive 160GB
Initial Backup file size 87.7GB
Successful Incremental Backup file size 4.2mb (done on same day as initial backup)
2nd Sucsesfull Incremental Backup file size 2.1mb (manually triggered day after initial backup)
Error backup file size 29kb (auto triggered day after initial backup)

The current version of Backup won't do a full backup (after the first one) unless you tell it to, via +Plan > Full Backup+ from the menubar. But it will back up everything that was added or changed since the last backup, so an Incremental backup can be quite large.
A clue may be lurking in the log for the failed backup.
From the main Backup screen, select the Plan in question, then from the Menubar, +Plan > History.+ Then select the "event" in question and click the +View Details+ button at the bottom.
If the log doesn't tell you much, copy and post it here (but if there's a long list of files copied, leave out most of that).

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