The last backup we did was under 900MB. The one we just did was over 4GB. I don't know what caused it to get so large. We have excluded the backup file from the backups. Here are links to the 2 logs files. Can you determine what has caused the huge increase?
https://autismontheseas.com/akeeba backup debug log3-27-24.txt
https://autismontheseas.com/akeeba backup debug log5-1-24.txt