Confused with backups

hi all, i am slowly, very slowly getting to grips with my Mac Book Pro, but i am still confused by Time Machine, i have a "My Passport" 1tb drive to put my backups on, i have so far done about 5 back ups and only used, about 50gig of space on the 1tb drive, i have always wondered how my backups don't take very long to do, obviousy they aren't very big, and then i think, perhaps it ONLY backs up the changes since my last back up.
in other words it doesn't look as if it has yet done a FULL back up
you can see from the screen shot below the size of a full back up (i think ?) So how can i do a FULL BACK UP please.
i would like to know that i have definitely backed up all my Emails within the MAIL program and similarly i would like to know that i have backed up all my iPad backups and Backed up all the App's i have purchased for my iPad and my Mac.
tim

try a Full Reset of Time Machine.
you also might want to take a look at these user tips:
Time Machine FAQ
Time Machine Troubleshooting

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