by Séverin Terrier.
Hi,
We've talked about that in french some days/weeks ago.
In fact, scheduled tasks are an evolution of the cron, and the core of executing all delayed tasks in Moodle.
"Courses > Backups > Automated backup setup" is very specific, but must rely on scheduled tasks!
2.7 has seen the first implementation of scheduled tasks. We could eventually imagine a revamp of the "Automated backup setup" to be directly integrated in scheduled tasks...
I've personnally defined "Automated backup" to be manual, and configured a dedicated cron for that.
Séverin