Time machine missing content

I have an MBA with 256 GB SSD. Updated to Mavericks including iMovie 10 (which filled the disk during conversion of iMovie 9 files).
Just checked Time Machine for possible restore and found, that the content is missing!
The only directories are "Users"(!) this happened possibly through thinning of local backups?!
How can I tell Time Machine to backup the whole boot disk (again)?
Tried
Michaels-MBA:tmp michael$ sudo tmutil removeexclusion /Applications
Michaels-MBA:tmp michael$ tmutil isexcluded /Applications
[Excluded]          /Applications
How /Applications (and all the other items) are Excluded and it seems I can't change that?!
Any help appreciated…

You've probably found your solution by now, but if not, according to this test it looks like you were affected with a Time Machine bug...
http://pondini.org/TM/D10.html
More info regarding the bug on this thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5125969

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