cpanel backups (out of space)

hello

i was trying to make my cpanel backups to /backup
the problem is that it used all the disk space:

root@server01 [/]# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda7 1035660 328388 654664 34% /
/dev/hda1 46636 25501 18727 58% /boot
/dev/hda5 55226412 5939716 46481348 12% /home
none 513996 0 513996 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda6 1035660 38916 944136 4% /tmp
/dev/hda2 10317860 2309264 7484476 24% /usr
/dev/hda3 7224600 434320 6423196 7% /var
/dev/hda6 1035660 38916 944136 4% /tmp


as you can see, there's just 1 GB available to / (hda7)
does someone have an idea on how can i make backups?
/home would be a suggestion, but i'm afraid cpanel getting crazy and thinking that /home/backup is an account and trying to backup it too

i have another server to backup and i tried to mount it (smbmount) and do the backup on it, but got another problem: a lot of "couldn't set permission for file..."
so my idea was to make the backup on HD, run a TAR on it (to preserv permissions) and upload to the FTP

any ideas?

thanks

 

 

 

 

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