Time Machine STILL backs up while in sleep

Time Machine STILL backs up my drive to an external drive while in sleep, despite many Apple KB articles to the contrary and 2 conversations with Geniuses saying it shouldn't either. Why?
I have turned of "wake for network access" under energy settings as recommended, but that didn't help either.
But if I open the external drive's backup folder there's a new folder for every hour in the last 24 hours, even if the computer had been asleep the whole time.
IMac is now on Mountain Lion, but it did the same under Lion as well.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated, thanks.

Yeap that all makes sense now.
Do you only have the current backup showing in the TM display?? Won't it fill in the rest?
Over wireless are you waiting for the indexing to finish.. ??
Previous backup may not show for a couple of hours.
Long short of it.. Mavericks version of TM is a pain.
Sometimes it is easier to completely ignore the TM backup and do the restore manually.
I have posted the details here. See if this helps.
Can't access old files on time capsule

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