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Hello,
I am going to assume this is normal. I've just updated my MacBook Pro to 10.8.2 and my time machine did the same thing. So I would say then it's normal, other wise we both have the same problem.
I did run a time machine update this morning and it backup to about 3GB unlike yesterday at over 16GB.
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