HT201250 Lion server not backing up to time machine.

Manual backups work. States next scheduled backup but it never runs. Any clues?
Running latest OS X Lion and using an external hard drive as time machine backup.

No hacks installed, only had server running for 4 days. I waited and watched this morning for the 7:29 backup but nothing happend. No errors or status messages.
The only entries in the ;og files at this time are ...
1/22/12 7:29:00.754 AM ipfw: 65534 Deny TCP 192.168.1.108:50748 192.168.1.162:389 in via en0
1/22/12 7:29:01.857 AM ipfw: 65534 Deny TCP 192.168.1.108:50748 192.168.1.162:389 in via en0
1/22/12 7:29:03.035 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: ([0x0-0x39f39f].com.apple.iCal.helper[58606]) The HOME environmental variable changed out from under us!
1/22/12 7:29:03.035 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: ([0x0-0x39f39f].com.apple.iCal.helper[58606]) In a future build of the OS, this error will be fatal.

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