Fails to backup changes, reports only eight files written

I had an "oops" moment and looked for a file changed yesterday. Couldn't find it (had other backup, luckily). I then went to the console logs and selected the backupd for the recent days. All of the backups were similar to this (arbitrarily selected):
12/18/10 1:53:07 PM com.apple.backupd[89594] com.apple.backupd Starting standard backup
12/18/10 1:53:14 PM com.apple.backupd[89594] com.apple.backupd Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backup/Backups.backupdb
12/18/10 1:53:17 PM com.apple.backupd[89594] com.apple.backupd No pre-backup thinning needed: 142.0 MB requested (including padding), 165.22 GB available
12/18/10 1:53:20 PM com.apple.backupd[89594] com.apple.backupd Copied 8 files (93 bytes) from volume Macintosh HD.
12/18/10 1:53:20 PM com.apple.backupd[89594] com.apple.backupd Starting post-backup thinning
12/18/10 1:53:20 PM com.apple.backupd[89594] com.apple.backupd Deleted backup /Volumes/Time Machine Backup/Backups.backupdb/BruceiMac/2010-12-17-133200: 165.22 GB now available
12/18/10 1:53:20 PM com.apple.backupd[89594] com.apple.backupd Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
12/18/10 1:53:21 PM com.apple.backupd[89594] com.apple.backupd Backup completed successfully.
The thinning takes place but only the noted eight files are written. I used Spotlight to see if it had a record of a similar file added during that period. It did. Not sure if that means anything except that the OS did know that a file was created.
I then restarted my iMac and forced a backup. It took a while, wrote lots of files and now current files are being backed up. No other issues noted.
Question is how to prevent this behavior or at least be able to detect it without having to daily check the logs.

Bruce Michel wrote:
Thanks. Looks like that could be the issue. I did a routine disk check on Dec 9. The logs don't go back that far, but I don't see a good backup. So, I went ten days without a good backup on TM.
Yup, that'll do it.
I definitely will bug Apple about this.
Great!

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