Time Machine & sleep computer settings

Is it OK to have time machine active and set my computer to sleep after 2 or 3 hours?
Will time machine work when the computer is not asleep, that is will it continue to back up when it is sleeping too?
Is it advisable to set my energy settings to never for computer sleep and just have my display sleeping in order to let TM backup hourly?
Thanks for the advice,
John

growe785 wrote:
Does the Time Machine App. have settings so I can program it to back up when I want it to?
Just on or off.
Does it have a manual option?
If you keep it off you can turn it back on and initiate a +Backup Now+ command.
There is a non-Apple editor:
[http://timesoftware.free.fr/timemachineeditor]

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