Option to split up backup not working?

First and foremost – this is a brilliant plugin, great work!!!

I’m having problems however running large backups that use S3 where the job times out when trying to store the archive

[20-Sep-2013 21:30:49] 1. Trying to create backup archive …
[20-Sep-2013 21:30:50] Compression method is TarGz
[20-Sep-2013 21:38:37] Backup archive created.
[20-Sep-2013 21:38:37] Archive size is 396.37 MB.
[20-Sep-2013 21:38:38] 17444 Files with 2.29 GB in Archive.
[20-Sep-2013 21:38:43] 1. Trying to send backup file to S3 Service …
[20-Sep-2013 21:38:45] Connected to S3 Bucket “oasportbackup” in eu-west-1
[20-Sep-2013 21:38:46] Starting upload to S3 Service …
[20-Sep-2013 21:46:55] WARNING: Job restart due to inactivity for more than 5 minutes.
[20-Sep-2013 21:47:02] 2. Trying to send backup file to S3 Service …
[20-Sep-2013 21:47:04] Connected to S3 Bucket “oasportbackup” in eu-west-1
[20-Sep-2013 21:47:05] Starting upload to S3 Service …
[20-Sep-2013 21:54:33] WARNING: Job restart due to inactivity for more than 5 minutes.
[20-Sep-2013 21:54:35] 3. Trying to send backup file to S3 Service …
[20-Sep-2013 21:54:38] Connected to S3 Bucket “oasportbackup” in eu-west-1
[20-Sep-2013 21:54:38] Starting upload to S3 Service …
[20-Sep-2013 22:01:57] WARNING: Job restart due to inactivity for more than 5 minutes.

To get around this, I have set the following options…

[x] Restart the job on every main step on a running job
[10] Restart the job once a given number of Megabytes has been added to an archive

I was expecting that I would end up with 40 or so small archives that would then get uploaded to S3. This wasn’t the case, i’m not even sure exactly what the change in behaviour was.

Any suggestions?

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