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Description of my issue:
Backups that are initiated via a CRON job are failing near the beginning of the backup with an out-of-memory error:
Akeeba\Engine\Dump\Base :: Database Error: MySQL client ran out of memory SQL=SELECT *
FROM `yl2s9_acymailing_history` LIMIT 0, 1000

However, I have run this same backup from within the Joomla admin within a 10-minute period and it appeared to run fine. At least it completed. I haven't verified that the backup restores correctly.

I did notice that the size of the backup has changed from around 36Mb to more than 46Mb for the latest ones initiated in the backend. The backups are only 5 days apart and I don't know of any files of that magnitude being added to the site. So that's troubling.

Thanks for your help!
Gary Marsh

Gary,

That's a good one. Your PHP memory limit is 200 MB, so you shouldn't be getting a memory error from PHP. We think the error is being thrown by the MySQL driver and is caused by a memory setting in my.cnf. That is something you will have to talk to your host about.