[mattmartinolc]

Just to confirm - the backup finished before you did this right?

Adding that one line doesn't affect the backup running. That code shouldn't execute until the backup process completely exits.

With the lines of code in there, it fails at 32% while its on /addons/packages and no archive file appears.

as you instructed, I put at the very top of the code

import xbmc

and after line 73 it's

xbmc.executebuiltin('Restart()')