by Urs Giezendanner.
Hi Beau
I had the same Problem: "The problem is that the backup and restore functions take so much time that my server times out."
I looked around and changed this and that...
Than I changed in the php-Settings of the server (not on Moodle) "memory_limit" to 512M.
After that, all backup and restore processes works fine and without any error. So it was that, and it make even sense...
Reagards
Urs