Do I need to get a new time capsule if mine is full?

My time capsule has only 24 gigs left. When it is full, do I just buy a new one and store the old one for backup?

Sorry, I cannot duplicate the error that you are seeing to be able to figure out how to find a solution. One of my Time Capsules has been full for months, but it always makes room for any new backups.
If you really don't need all the old backups from months ago, the simplest and fastest thing to do is erase the Time Capsule drive and start all over with a new backup and move forward from there.
Otherwise, you can manually delete backups, but the process is very time consumming because it takes a long time to delete individual files. I do not recommend this, but will provide you with some links of instructions for "how to's" on this if you want to give it a try. You will be on your own if you do this.
If you want to preserve all of your current backups, then you will need to add another Time Capsule and start backups to that new device. Buy the largest drive capacity that you can afford. I have yet to meet the first person who ever regretted buying too large of a hard drive.

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