diff --git a/app/controllers/admin/backups_controller.rb b/app/controllers/admin/backups_controller.rb
index 0ef801a8198..657b5f7ffd1 100644
--- a/app/controllers/admin/backups_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/admin/backups_controller.rb
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ class Admin::BackupsController < Admin::AdminController
   private
 
   def has_enough_space_on_disk?(size)
-    `df -l . | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 4`.to_i > size
+    `df -l -B 1K . | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 4`.to_i > size / 1024
   end
 
 end