HT3275 Back-up capacity issue within Time Machine.

I'm getting the following message when I try to back-up with Time Machine (TM) to my DROBO DRIVE 10 TB (split into 2TB partitians):
This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup requires 7.65 TB but only 1.28 TB are available.
My HD is 2TB and is only half full.
When I look at the options panel the list includes the drobo partitian that holds my TM back-ups. This listing is greyed out and can't be excluded from the list.
This still doen't explain the required 7.65TB?
Anyone?
Cheers,
Marcus.

Thanks Linc, Let me know if this is what you require:
Jan 22 01:18:14 Marcus-iMac-24 com.apple.backupd[2938]: Starting standard backup
Jan 22 01:18:14 Marcus-iMac-24 com.apple.backupd[2938]: Backing up to: /Volumes/DroboS_B_2TB/Backups.backupdb
Jan 22 01:18:17 Marcus-iMac-24 com.apple.backupd[2938]: Detected system migration from: /Volumes/DroboS_B_2TB/Backups.backupdb/Marcus iMac 24/2012-01-12-124443/Macintosh HD
Jan 22 01:18:17 Marcus-iMac-24 com.apple.backupd[2938]: Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Hoop-la
Jan 22 01:18:18 Marcus-iMac-24 com.apple.backupd[2938]: Forcing deep traversal on source: "Hoop-la" (mount: '/' fsUUID: 9A9B698F-D783-3233-803A-32C6284DF2E9 eventDBUUID: DA8E61A9-2431-4590-9BD5-F20637EF0641), {1, 1, 1, 0}
Jan 22 01:18:18 Marcus-iMac-24 com.apple.backupd[2938]: Node requires deep traversal:/Volumes/DroboS_D_2TB reason:must scan subdirs|
Jan 22 01:18:32 Marcus-iMac-24 com.apple.backupd[2938]: Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|require scan|
Jan 22 01:27:17 Marcus-iMac-24 com.apple.backupd[2938]: Node requires deep traversal:/Volumes/DroboS_A_2TB reason:must scan subdirs|
Jan 22 01:27:43 Marcus-iMac-24 com.apple.backupd[2938]: Node requires deep traversal:/Volumes/DroboS_C_2TB reason:must scan subdirs|
Jan 22 01:32:08 Marcus-iMac-24 com.apple.backupd[2938]: Starting pre-backup thinning: 6.96 TB requested (including padding), 1.17 TB available
Jan 22 01:32:08 Marcus-iMac-24 com.apple.backupd[2938]: No expired backups exist - deleting oldest backups to make room
Jan 22 01:32:08 Marcus-iMac-24 com.apple.backupd[2938]: Error: backup disk is full - all 0 possible backups were removed, but space is still needed.
Jan 22 01:32:08 Marcus-iMac-24 com.apple.backupd[2938]: Backup Failed: unable to free 6.96 TB needed space
Jan 22 01:32:14 Marcus-iMac-24 com.apple.backupd[2938]: Backup failed with error: Not enough available disk space on the target volume.
Jan 22 02:18:14 Marcus-iMac-24 com.apple.backupd[2938]: Starting standard backup
Jan 22 02:18:14 Marcus-iMac-24 com.apple.backupd[2938]: Backing up to: /Volumes/DroboS_B_2TB/Backups.backupdb
Jan 22 02:18:15 Marcus-iMac-24 com.apple.backupd[2938]: Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Hoop-la
Jan 22 02:18:15 Marcus-iMac-24 com.apple.backupd[2938]: Node requires deep traversal:/Volumes/DroboS_D_2TB reason:must scan subdirs|
Jan 22 02:18:31 Marcus-iMac-24 com.apple.backupd[2938]: Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|require scan|
Jan 22 02:27:11 Marcus-iMac-24 com.apple.backupd[2938]: Node requires deep traversal:/Volumes/DroboS_A_2TB reason:must scan subdirs|
Jan 22 02:27:37 Marcus-iMac-24 com.apple.backupd[2938]: Node requires deep traversal:/Volumes/DroboS_C_2TB reason:must scan subdirs|

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