by Adrian Perez Rodriguez.
Hey Ken
Also the loglifetime for admin/settings.php?section=backupgeneralsettings is "365 days" and for admin/settings.php?section=logsettingstandard is "Never delete logs". But like you said the logsettingstandard doesn't get involved in the backup process.
So maybe I should try to set it from 365 days to an lower value like 1 day and retry it? So it shouldn't take a huge amount of logs during the backup process?
Sorry but I can't follow you with your latest described step:
If you look at Site Admin -> Report -> Logs ... note only site admins can access ... what information from 2 academic years past would be of use presently?
Do have many request from teachers for what student X did in a course during an Academic year or 2 Academic years ago?