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The log lines up there are created when the Control Panel is loaded. This means that the CRON jobs have never ran. When you say that they failed, what is the exact email message you get from your site's CRON daemon? I suspect that you either try to access these files directly as web pages (you shouldn't) or you are using the wrong path to either the PHP binary or the scripts themselves. As a result, it would help if you also posted the exact CRON command line you are using.

According to that log file the CRON job was successful. I think that you thought that the backup was failing because you are getting no emails on completion. Getting emails is an optional setting which has to be defined by clicking on the Parameters button on Akeeba Backup's Control Panel page.

If you are using anything but the backup.php script to perform a backup, setting SMTP settings in your site's Global Configuration will resolve the problem. backup.php runs in command line mode and can, therefore, not use the SMTP settings in your configuration.php. All other backup modes will resort to using PHP's mail() function if no SMTP settings are defined in your Joomla! Global Configuration, which might indeed cause mail delivery issues on some servers.

So, try setting the SMTP options and this should solve the issue. Tip: you can send your SMTP settings by using's Joomla!'s mass mail feature to send a test email to your Super Administrators. If it works, Akeeba Backup should be able to send emails too, as it uses Joomla!'s JMail class to send out those emails.