Can't show Time Machine in menu bar

In the system preferences > Time Machine settings, when I try to enable "Show Time Machine in menu bar", the button automatically gets deselected. Otherwise Time Machine works fine, but I can't get it to show in the menu bar because of this. Any idea why this might happen? Is there a way to enable it in Terminal?

Almost all the items put at the top of the screen by selecting 'show' this or that are held in the the preference file I mentioned.
You can try this:
1) Take a screenshot to remember what you had (shift + command + 3)
2) Quit all your applications and save your work.
3) Just to make sure every is ok go to Applications > Utilities >Disk Utility, launch the application, click the picture of your hard drive, click repair permissions. When done quit.
4) In Keychain Access set the preferences to NOT show the keychain in the menu.
5) In the finder go to Macintosh HD > Users > <yourusername> > Library > Preferences >
scoll down to the file called com.apple.systemuiserver.plist and drag it to the desktop. Restart your machine.
6) Go into keychain access and check the box
You may need to also run keychain first aid.
Good Luck,
-j

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