Is there a way to put system to sleep after Time Machine runs?

I don't need to run Time Machine every hour, especially since my TM disk is on Firewire and not built in (had a disk fail with TM volume on same disk - bad idea)
When TM runs, it has to spin up the Firewire external disk, so I just run TM by hand now. I'd like to do this when I go to dinner or to sleep etc
Is there a way to have the Mac system sleep after Time Machine finishes running? An AppleScript perhaps?
thanks

William Donelson wrote:
Nope, there is an error message and TM does not automatically run when the drive comes back online.
What is the error message?
I have not seen one, and that is exactly how I use TM. Unmount, turn off the drive. Turn on the drive, the backup volume mounts automatically and TM resumes its scheduled backups.
Your Console logs will reveal the times in which TM attempted to back up but could not find the device:
Dec 21 10:23:04 Johns-iMac.local com.apple.backupd[1216]: Starting automatic backup
Dec 21 10:23:04 Johns-iMac.local com.apple.backupd[1216]: Backup failed with error: 1002
Dec 21 10:23:07 Johns-iMac.local com.apple.backupd-helper[1198]: Not starting Time Machine backup after wake - failed to resolve alias to backup volume.
Dec 21 11:23:04 Johns-iMac.local com.apple.backupd-helper[1408]: Not starting scheduled Time Machine backup - time machine destination not resolvable.
The last entry will repeat every hour, until it finds the TM device. Its normally scheduled activity will resume when it does.
" Web pages that refresh themselves can prevent sleep..." such as the NY Times home page...
As if I needed another reason not to read that rag.

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