Applications directory excluded from backups

Hi all,
My time machine is not backing up correctly. It is exlcuding the Applications directory and I'm unable to do a system restore from it. Does any one have any solutions to this. FYI, I've checked exclusion lists etc. plus there's plenty of space on my backup drive.

So, I checked
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
And it had the /Applications directory under 'ExlcudeByPath' alongside a whole host of other files. Running backup again now after removing this file to see what happens.

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