Time Machine - any known errors around disk space?

Hey guys, I have a 1t drive backing up my 500g internal and 500g external drives. It's been doing fine, but just a few days ago I started getting an error that there's not enough disk space to do a backup, like WAY not enough.
I realize this could seem like a totally stupid question, except that it happened so suddenly. One day I'm backing up fine, the next day I'm 62 Gb short on space.
Aside from the obvious (too much crap on my drives), is there anything that might have caused such a problem, like a corrupted database or some junk files that got dumped onto one of my drives?
Any suggestions?
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(THANKS in advance)
js

Jesse Stern wrote:
Hey guys, I have a 1t drive backing up my 500g internal and 500g external drives.
That may not be large enough. It depends on how much data is on those drives, though. See #1 in [Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/FAQ.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
Aside from the obvious (too much crap on my drives), is there anything that might have caused such a problem, like a corrupted database or some junk files that got dumped onto one of my drives?
Possibly. See #D4 in [Time Machine - Troubleshooting|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum), for some common culprits. Unfortunately, there's no way to tell what it's trying to back up beforehand; only when a backup is complete can you see what it did.

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