by Alain Raap.
Richard, does your automated backup makes 1300 backups in 2 hours? That's really fast! I also run the automated backup task outside Moodle and I have a separate logfile for this (Linux cron) task. So the whole automated backup run is logged in this logfile. Perhaps because of the adhoc task that is running the backups now that the mail isn't giving you a good insight in the results of the run?