My backup is full?

I keep seeing the message that says my icloud storage is almost full. I followed all the instructions and went to manage storage and turned off everything in there, went to my photos and deleted half of them, and went to messages and deleted them. It wasn't until I turned off my photo stream to be backed up that the "full storage" disappeared. Can someone tell me what to do about this so that I don't go through this again? What is, and is not important to be backed up in icloud? Thanks

Time Machine "targets" a backup to  a specific disk (well actually a specific volume if the disk is partitioned into more that one volumes). That disk must have enough space for the next backup when it occurs.
This is true whether the disk is internal, external or on a Time Capsule.
It will keep backing up to the same place until you tell it otherwise.
Now Moutain Lion has added the capability to have multiple disks being used for backups.
But, it is a rotation between the disks. It is not treating all the disks as one great big disk.
If there is in not sufficient room on any disk when it is its turn in the rotation, then it will start deleting on that disk to try and make a backup.
The idea behind this is to rotate the backups across multiple disks for reliability, not to treat them as one big disk. If it did do that - treat them as one big disk - then a failure on any one disk would in effect corrupt the entire backup set.
You have to explicitly set up the target disk or disks when using multiples in a rotation via Time Machine Prefs.
One thing to consider is whether you want to maintain a continuous single backup set "forever".
As the set gets larger, the risk of corrupting the internal data structures in TM increase, as does the time to enter and retrieve items in TM.
I decided with Mountain Lion to put to one side my 5 year backup set and start a new one,and to rotate a pair of disks withthe new backup.
I can still examine the old ones with "Browse other backup disks" - that is once that is fixed. It is broken in this inital release. This is a known problem and was reported early and should be fixed very soon.

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