TimeMachine & SnowLeopard back up issue

If I do not set the energy saver to never go to sleep and if I do not shut down all apps and just step away from the MacBookPro Time Machine DOES NOT RUN
Just now it was set to backup at 6:07 PM EDT, I decided at 6:06 to check for an email response it wasn't there so I shut down Mail. The Time Machine clock when I looked was not set to back up at 7:07 PM .. it had not run. This happens every time .. every single time ... WHY? It worked fine PRE SnowLeopard, you could leave it plugged in backing up all the time ... now its not working.
SnowLeopard is fondly ref'd here in my house as SoggyCat
OH and restoring a prior to SnowLeopard Time Machine back up in Mail IMPOSSIBLE so thanks for that

Daryl Edelstein wrote:
Exactly. It says it will back up at 7 and it doesn't IF anything is in use or its asleep
Pref pane says next back up at 8 (or whatever the hour is)
No failure message. Nothing happens. Given time passes and the it updates the time and read 'next updated at 9 (or whatever the upcoming hour is)
It doesn't say anything it just doesn't work until I do not use anything and its not asleep.
Very odd (but no, it's not going to back up while asleep). Have you ever edited any of TM's plist files, or used a 3rd-party scheduling app such as +Time Machine Editor?+
Note the time a scheduled backup should start, but doesn't, then use the Console app (in your Applications/Utilities folder) to see the log messages.
When it starts, click +Show Log List+ in the toolbar, then navigate in the sidebar that opens up to your system.log and select it. Navigate to the time you noted above, then see what follows that might indicate some sort of error (many of the messages there are info for developers, etc.). If in doubt post (a reasonable amount of) the log here.
Also post the details of your setup.

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Message was edited by: Philip Ayers

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