How can I tell that TM is backing up correctly?

I see it on the pref folder backing up, but when I hit the dock Icon all I see is today now.
I don't see the hourly backups - I just started about 10 hrs ago. Too soon to see a history?
Thanks

If nothing has been changed, and if nothing new has been added, then TM will not perform the
backup because there's nothing new to record. It will just come on, check your drive, and then
shut back down again and start over in the next hour.
This is very misleading for new people IMO.
It's almost impossible for there to be no file activity during a 1 hour period even if user has done nothing such has taking a 1 hr coffee break away from the computer. TM hourly snapshots will always (I've yet to find any evidence this is not true) find some small amount of data to backup. For example, if you click Options... in TM Pref panel and then click the "+" button and then click the "Show invisible items" box you will very quickly see that the /var/log/system.log file is include in the backups. The system.log is always growing and this will mean TM hourly backups will find new data to backup.

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