If yoou are sure it is a backup program doing it but do not know what it is, here is a suggestion that might help you find it.  Open Synaptic and use the search icon (not the quick search box) to search for the word backup.  Look at the results for a green box indicating a backup app that is installed.<br>
<br>Another thought is to look to see if a backup of some kind might be scheduled as a cron, anacron, or at job causing it to run regularly.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Trent Shipley <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:tshipley@deru.com">tshipley@deru.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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I followed this option and promptly discovered that I was writing
backup files to /media/disk/ which was an alias for the main hard drive
which not unsurprisingly eventually filled up.  Of course I don&#39;t know
what program is the culprit so it will eventually fill up again.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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        <td style="font: inherit;" valign="top">I usually do a find search based on file size<br>
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        <b>find / -size +1000000 -print</b><br>
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The above examples is any files over a GB. I usually do it as root so
it can hit every directory. I usually start high and work my way down
to see if I can find any files that are taking up too much space and
may not be needed.<br>
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Subject: ext3 disk full<br>
To: <a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us" target="_blank">plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us</a><br>
Date: Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 9:48 PM<br>
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250GB ext3 disk on Ubuntu 10.4 is full.  I can&#39;t find more than 20GB
worth of data on the disk.  Disk Usage Analyzer and GUI file tools show
the disk with only 10GB free.  Disk utility and e2fsck show the drive
as fine so I can&#39;t get it to repair itself.  Even so I have about 220GB
of mystery data on the disk.<br>
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