Free Space on Time Capsule not Changing

I've noticed this problem over the last couple of weeks. The amount of free space (and used space) on the Time Capsule drive is not changing. All the backups are happening as they should, but no change in free space.
I've verified all the backups are there by entering time machine and seeing the files for all dates.
I checked that it wasn't just a coincidence based on backups and then removal of old ones (thinning) by looking through the system log and it shows that after every backup and ever pre/post-thinning it always shows 803.7 GB free (actually, exactly 803.65)
I tried restarting my coputer.
I tried restarting the Time Capsule.
I upgraded the Time Capsule firmware to the latest version (7.3.2).
All without luck. Has anyone else seen this behavior or have any idea what might be going on?

Here's an example from some recent backups. This is the System.log records relating to backupd.
Jul 26 09:12:57 MosMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2121]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 100.0 MB requested (including padding), 803.65 GB available
Jul 26 09:16:29 MosMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2121]: Copied 1464 files (23.4 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Jul 26 09:16:29 MosMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2121]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 100.0 MB requested (including padding), 803.65 GB available
Jul 26 09:17:42 MosMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2121]: Copied 501 files (4.4 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Jul 26 09:18:07 MosMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2121]: Starting post-backup thinning
Jul 26 09:18:07 MosMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2121]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Jul 26 10:13:36 MosMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2193]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 100.0 MB requested (including padding), 803.65 GB available
Jul 26 10:16:56 MosMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2193]: Copied 1599 files (15.9 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Jul 26 10:16:56 MosMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2193]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 100.0 MB requested (including padding), 803.65 GB available
Jul 26 10:17:50 MosMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2193]: Copied 425 files (4.2 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Jul 26 11:04:33 MosMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2349]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 100.0 MB requested (including padding), 803.65 GB available
Jul 26 11:09:18 MosMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2349]: Copied 995 files (136.6 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Jul 26 11:09:52 MosMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2349]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 100.0 MB requested (including padding), 803.65 GB available
Jul 26 11:10:22 MosMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2349]: Unable to rebuild path cache for source item. Partial source path:
Jul 26 11:11:31 MosMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2349]: Copied 723 files (4.6 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
There's at least a couple hundred of MBs backed up.

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