Not enough storage, yet plenty of unused space

my iPhone 5 with both IOS 6 and now IOS 7 tells me every morning that it was unable to back up because there is "not enough storage". When I check the cloud I see that I have only use 2 1/2 gigs of 5 gigs of storage, and my phone has 9 GB of free space. Why am I seeing this message, and what does it mean?

The 2.5 GB you see is storage in the cloud (i.e. Apple servers) the 9 Gb of space is on your phone. When you try to back up, it will use your iCloud storage, which you clearly do not have enough of, for the amount of data you are trying to back up.
You can see what your iCloud storage is used for and delete any unwanted content at settings > iCloud > Backup & Storage > Manage...... on your iOS device. Or System Preferences > iCloud > Manage...... on a Mac.

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Go to Settings>General>Usage and see how much available local storage you have available. You can also see what apps are taking up the most room.
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