G5 unwanted sleep in off hours

I use Carbon Copy Cloner to back up my hard drive to an external drive.
It had been working fine for months but now the ccc. log says the system is going to sleep and ccc. can't do anything about it.
The result is ccc. can't do its nightly backup.
Yet I have "never" checked off in the Energy Saver settings for the computer.
What other things can I look at to keep the computer running all night?
Thank you,
Dan Tee

There is a free application called Caffeine, which when enabled will keep your computer awake. This will also prevent any screen savers from running, as well as keep your display from going to sleep, so this may not be an ideal option for you.
I'm sure others will chime in with alternatives.

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