Description of my issue:
Intermittently (not all the time), during and after my site backup, the site crashes and I get this message "1146 Table 'nvs_j3.j25_updates' doesn't exist SQL=TRUNCATE TABLE j25_updates". I dont have this problem when Akeeba is disabled.
My resolution each time is to copy over the joomla updates table from a backup. But as you know this is not a sustainable solution.