diff --git a/tests/test_backup.py b/tests/test_backup.py
index da5287b666558683ea91c886d749e6737f7844e4..388b1ad92be89b5d8b3b3cbb8d793d91198b5570 100755
--- a/tests/test_backup.py
+++ b/tests/test_backup.py
@@ -59,25 +59,6 @@ def test_last_backup_is_recent(server):
         return False
 
 
-def test_backup_space(server=None, path="/backup"):
-    cmd = 'df -h %s | tail -n 1' % path
-    if server:
-        cmd = 'ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no %s ' % server + cmd
-    status, out = subprocess.getstatusoutput(cmd)
-    if status == 0:
-        dev, total, used, free, used_perc, mount = out.strip().split()
-        used_perc = int(used_perc.replace('%', ''))
-        if used_perc > 80:
-            print('There is less than 20% of available space for backups')
-            return False
-        else:
-            print('There is %s%% of free space' % (100 - used_perc))
-            return True
-    else:
-        print('Failed to check backup space')
-        return False
-
-
 def check_backup_is_incremental(path):
     # incremental backups done with tmbackup mean that they will all at least contain links
     dirs = os.listdir(path)
@@ -130,7 +111,6 @@ def check_local_backups(paths):
         status, out = subprocess.getstatusoutput(cmd)
         for bf in out.split('\n'):
             all_ok = min(check_local_backup(bf), all_ok)
-        all_ok = min(test_backup_space(path=f), all_ok)
     return all_ok
 
 
@@ -148,10 +128,7 @@ if os.path.isfile('../utils.py'):
             if not test_last_backup_is_recent(BACKUP_SERVER):
                 sys.exit(1)
             else:
-                if not test_backup_space(server=BACKUP_SERVER):
-                    sys.exit(1)
-                else:
-                    sys.exit(0)
+                sys.exit(0)
     elif LOCAL_BACKUP_FOLDERS:
         sys.exit(not check_local_backups(LOCAL_BACKUP_FOLDERS))
     else: