Nah... it's pretty much normal. As I said, backup and restore is real memory hog. The setting is indeed in php.ini.
You should still set those paths - that might be a problem even if you get the memory size increased.
Site administration > Server > System Paths
(you need to know what to set them to, of course)
Backup and restore
import and backup problems
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