Hi
Independent of Turnitin running the cron.php regularly is a must for the proper operation of Moodle. See the highlighted sentence in https://docs.moodle.org/en/Cron. If Turnitin requires that https://docs.moodle.org/en/Automated_course_backup (triggered from cron.php) needs to be run, then you must. Yes, I know that the automated course backup is an expensive operation - in big sites it can drag on for hours and even days! You can run the Advanced forum search https://moodle.org/mod/forum/search.php?id=5 to find such discussions.
N.B. Could you please add a note to your previous discussion https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=411999 saying the the follow up is here? You are stretching the effort of the community unnecessarily. Ref. the appropriate section in the Moodle Sity Policy https://moodle.org/mod/page/view.php?id=7080.
Independent of Turnitin running the cron.php regularly is a must for the proper operation of Moodle. See the highlighted sentence in https://docs.moodle.org/en/Cron. If Turnitin requires that https://docs.moodle.org/en/Automated_course_backup (triggered from cron.php) needs to be run, then you must. Yes, I know that the automated course backup is an expensive operation - in big sites it can drag on for hours and even days! You can run the Advanced forum search https://moodle.org/mod/forum/search.php?id=5 to find such discussions.
N.B. Could you please add a note to your previous discussion https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=411999 saying the the follow up is here? You are stretching the effort of the community unnecessarily. Ref. the appropriate section in the Moodle Sity Policy https://moodle.org/mod/page/view.php?id=7080.