Ken, that's already some time ago I used this solution for our backup problems. I'm testing now with Moodle 4.0 beta version and the automated backup task gives me a headache again. I explained it in a post in this group here https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=429167
Backup and restore
Automated backups are killing my server
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