von Visvanath Ratnaweera.
Hi Ken
I must add that this Moodle is a fresh clone. The source had "Automated backtup setup: Active" set to Manual, which I immediately switched to Disabled. The Cron ran. It is possible that it scheduled a backup task. But the odd thing is that the backups were done from my own cron script, calling ./admin/cli/automated_backups.php. I will investigate further.
I must add that this Moodle is a fresh clone. The source had "Automated backtup setup: Active" set to Manual, which I immediately switched to Disabled. The Cron ran. It is possible that it scheduled a backup task. But the odd thing is that the backups were done from my own cron script, calling ./admin/cli/automated_backups.php. I will investigate further.