Time Machine Has Never Performed a Full Backup that Can Be Restored From

I've been backing up my system via time machine to a time capsule. I'm using the same time capsule for both my mac and my wife's. My wife's mac is backing up fine with numerous full backups that can be restored from. However, when I recently booted into recovery mode, I discovered there were no full backups of my mac that I could restore from. I've been using this time capsule for about a year now so I'm concerned as to why there are no full backups. I can enter time machine and see my docs and files...just no full backups. Thanks for your help.

There was a bug in Mountain Lion that caused TM to fail to backup system files.
See D10 here. http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
Honestly if you want a reliable full backup get CCC or other clone type backup and do a disk image to a USB drive that you can then test boot from. Then use TM for incrementals..
What the change to Maverick will bring I am not sure.. ??
We went from big cats to card sharps in Westerns..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maverick_(TV_series)

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