Mac Mini mid 2011 Mountain Lion sleep and don't wake after +/- 6h of sleep

Hello all.
I Have a Mac Mini mid 2011 with Mountain Lion 10.8.5. connected to Wi-Fi network with Time Capsule, with back to Mymac enabled as well as ssh.
The power save is set as default to wake up on lan, put to sleep the disks as nedeed.
It works fine , and i can wake him up by back to mymac or just ssh to until +/- 6 hours of inactivity, after I Can't wake him up unless by bluetooth or with the power button.
I had made a fresh install but it works realy the same.
Before update to Mountain Lion , it was working fine.
Can someone help me
Thanks in advance.
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