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Hello David,
Deja Dup will make a full backup from time to time, which means that everything backed up before needs to be backed up again. This is necessary to prevent data loss resulting from very long backup chains of incremental backups. It also is the only way to delete old backups, because all incremental backups since the last full backup need to be kept for you to be able to restore all your data.
Your screenshot shows, that your backup from the 20. of July is such a full backup, which has been split to several volumes. But it is only one single backup!
So you should check, if you accidentally included more data in your backup, than you wanted to (or can afford to). A circular backup as you suggested would indeed be a possibility here, if you included your dropbox folder in the backup.
BTW.: If the screenshot shows every file, that is left (and you deleted the rest) you will not be able to restore any of them using Deja Dup or Duplicity, because your backup sets are both not complete. Although you could decrypt and unpack them "by hand" to retrieve at least some of the files.