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Joomla! version: 2.5.8
PHP version: 5.3.3
MySQL version: 5.1.66
Host: CentOS Linux 6.3
Akeeba eXtract Wizard / Remote CLI / SiteDiff version: Akeeba Backup Professional 3.6.10 Remote CLI

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Description of my issue:

Our backup runs at midnight every night and the backup jpa is good as it restores fine to our backup server.  However, multiple backups are created each night (there seems to be an average of 4) varying in size by a few megabytes.   Also, with each backup comes 60+ emails.  The email states that the backup has been completed and references the file name.  Many of the stated backup files cannot be located in the destination directory.  It looks likes this:

Akeeba Backup has completed backing up your site using the front-end backup feature. You may visit the site's administrator section to download the backup.

The new backup was taken with profile #1. It consists of 1 part(s). The full list of files of this backup set is the following:

        site-www.ridgway.k12.co.us-

20121211-000104.jpa

Any idea what's going on here?

The CRON job schedule /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/cli/akeeba-backup.php is the only command in the bash shell.   Unless the time of the server is off and and somewhow it keeps thinking it's midnight than we don't know why it repeats.  The code below is in a .sh file that is running a CRON job.

#! /bin/bash
/usr/bin/php /var/www/html/cli/akeeba-backup.php

Thanks, great observation.  Continue to follow your crystal ball as it giving you great insight!  Tomorrow I hope to see the assumed data. 

Thanks again and for the super quick response. 

Btw, do you know what service is being used to generate the email?

Sorry, another question related to the backup.  In the Joomla Backend we'll change the basic config output directory and save, but when we return to view it has reverted to default dir set up for Akeeba in the Components directory.  Sounds like a permissions problem.  Why can't you save to a writable network directory that is mounted on that box?