Time machine dont start every hour on Lion

Hello,
We just installed Lion Server on a 2008 xserve.
Everything work fine, but when it's time for TM to make a new backup (every hour) it just don't start.
We need to start it mannualy. TM keeps the scheduling for the next hour but when it's come again it doesn't want to start!
Whats the problem?

Hello,
Thank you for your kind reply.
The backup is controlled by the server. I mean that we have a Workdisk that our staff access via AFP.
And this disk is backuped by TM to the other one. (3 disk on the xserve 1.System / 2. Workdisk / 3.TM)
No 3rd party apps is used by now.
Nothing is writed on the log until i launch myself the backup.
It's like Time machine is deactived...
Here te copy. backup launched at 10h23 and 12h31 manualy :
10/02/12 10:23:27,321 com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
10/02/12 10:23:27,553 com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: /Volumes/TM_BACKUP/Backups.backupdb
10/02/12 10:23:34,700 com.apple.backupd: 3.27 GB required (including padding), 220.31 GB available
10/02/12 10:23:58,246 com.apple.backupd: Copied 6631 files (482.5 MB) from volume Server HD.
10/02/12 10:24:38,404 com.apple.backupd: Copied 8720 files (1.8 GB) from volume Data.
10/02/12 10:24:38,775 com.apple.backupd: 1.10 GB required (including padding), 218.48 GB available
10/02/12 10:24:41,708 com.apple.backupd: Copied 965 files (2.5 MB) from volume Server HD.
10/02/12 10:24:43,232 com.apple.backupd: Copied 1177 files (2.5 MB) from volume Data.
10/02/12 10:24:44,417 com.apple.backupd: Starting post-backup thinning
10/02/12 10:24:50,315 com.apple.backupd: Deleted /Volumes/TM_BACKUP/Backups.backupdb/vous'xserve/2012-02-08-175034 (36.6 MB)
10/02/12 10:24:59,253 com.apple.backupd: Deleted /Volumes/TM_BACKUP/Backups.backupdb/vous'xserve/2012-02-08-171057 (655.9 MB)
10/02/12 10:24:59,253 com.apple.backupd: Post-back up thinning complete: 2 expired backups removed
10/02/12 10:24:59,293 com.apple.backupd: Backup completed successfully.
10/02/12 12:31:45,605 com.apple.backupd: Starting standard backup
10/02/12 12:31:45,719 com.apple.backupd: Backing up to: /Volumes/TM_BACKUP/Backups.backupdb
10/02/12 12:31:53,672 com.apple.backupd: 1.78 GB required (including padding), 219.17 GB available
10/02/12 12:32:09,073 com.apple.backupd: Copied 5185 files (165.1 MB) from volume Server HD.
10/02/12 12:32:27,880 com.apple.backupd: Copied 6683 files (582.1 MB) from volume Data.
10/02/12 12:32:28,098 com.apple.backupd: 1.10 GB required (including padding), 218.59 GB available
10/02/12 12:32:30,355 com.apple.backupd: Copied 471 files (558 KB) from volume Server HD.
10/02/12 12:32:32,120 com.apple.backupd: Copied 587 files (774 KB) from volume Data.
10/02/12 12:32:32,876 com.apple.backupd: Starting post-backup thinning
10/02/12 12:32:40,038 com.apple.backupd: Deleted /Volumes/TM_BACKUP/Backups.backupdb/vous'xserve/2012-02-09-102938 (21.1 MB)
10/02/12 12:32:40,038 com.apple.backupd: Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
10/02/12 12:32:40,081 com.apple.backupd: Backup completed successfully.

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