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Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes, the table of contents
Have I searched the tickets before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Joomla! version: 1.5.23
PHP version: 5.3.10
MySQL version: 5.1.61
Host: Rochen
Akeeba Backup version: 3.3.13

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Description of my issue:

My akeeba.cli.log file grows at an incredible rate (estimated more than 1Mb per second) until maxing out my disk space at a file size of hundreds of MB. If I delete it, it just starts again.

What happened is Rochen moved all of my sites to a new server and some of the Akeeba configuration info got reset to nothing, most notably my 'Upload to S3' section. So I fixed that this morning and the new upload to S3 worked fine, but now I have this problem of the huge akeeba.cli.log file.

It keeps doing this:

DEBUG |120305 07:24:23|====== Starting Step number 84855477 ======
DEBUG |120305 07:24:23|Updating statistics
DEBUG |120305 07:24:23|----- Finished operation 1 ------
DEBUG |120305 07:24:23|Successful Smart algorithm on AECoreDomainFinalization
DEBUG |120305 07:24:23|Kettenrad :: More work required in domain 'finale'
DEBUG |120305 07:24:23|====== Finished Step number 84855477 ======
DEBUG |120305 07:24:23|*** Engine steps batching: Break flag detected.
DEBUG |120305 07:24:23|*** Batching of engine steps finished. I will now return control to the caller.
DEBUG |120305 07:24:23|No need to sleep; execution time: 0.927925109863 msec; min. exec. time: 0 msec
DEBUG |120305 07:24:23|
DEBUG |120305 07:24:23|====== Starting Step number 84855478 ======
DEBUG |120305 07:24:23|Updating statistics
DEBUG |120305 07:24:23|----- Finished operation 1 ------
DEBUG |120305 07:24:23|Successful Smart algorithm on AECoreDomainFinalization
DEBUG |120305 07:24:23|Kettenrad :: More work required in domain 'finale'
DEBUG |120305 07:24:23|====== Finished Step number 84855478 ======
DEBUG |120305 07:24:23|*** Engine steps batching: Break flag detected.
DEBUG |120305 07:24:23|*** Batching of engine steps finished. I will now return control to the caller.
DEBUG |120305 07:24:23|No need to sleep; execution time: 0.930070877075 msec; min. exec. time: 0 msec

Thanks, but that wasn't it. The CRON job was set to fire once per day. For good measure, I deleted it and created it again, but it's set at:
105*** /usr/bin/php -q /home/myusername/public_html/administrator/components/com_akeeba/backup.php

It's strange, I can still create backups no problem, but this file just keeps growing to many hundreds of megabytes in size in 10 minutes.

I actually had just installed the newest version this morning. The problem was happening both before and after that. I've since installed it again and the problem persists.

Perhaps I should uninstall entirely and then install again? I don't mind running the configuration wizard again.

Wow, I uninstalled and then installed again and the problem persists. Unbelievable. I already have alter table privileges.

If you have any other ideas, please let me know. I'll also ask Rochen if they have any thoughts. Otherwise my main website is out of commission.

Sorry Nicholas, I misunderstood earlier. Yes, the cron jump must have been executing continuously. The way to stop that at Rochen if you have WHM access is to suspend and then unsuspend the account. Thanks for all the help. Case closed.

Who are you talking to? I am receiving the emails but I do not have use Rochen subscription/hosting.

Please contact me directly by email.

Michal