diff --git a/roles/mirrormanager/backend/files/backend.cron b/roles/mirrormanager/backend/files/backend.cron
index b63d3fbbec..bcf4cde332 100644
--- a/roles/mirrormanager/backend/files/backend.cron
+++ b/roles/mirrormanager/backend/files/backend.cron
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ MAILTO=root
 
 # Refresh the mirrorlist cache at the top of the hour and sync it to the
 # mirrorlist servers
-55 * * * * mirrormanager /usr/bin/mm2_update-mirrorlist-server && /usr/local/bin/sync_pkl_to_mirrorlists.sh
+#55 * * * * mirrormanager /usr/bin/mm2_update-mirrorlist-server && /usr/local/bin/sync_pkl_to_mirrorlists.sh
 
 # update master directory
 # logs sent to /var/log/mirrormanager/umdl.log by default
diff --git a/roles/mirrormanager/crawler/files/crawler.cron b/roles/mirrormanager/crawler/files/crawler.cron
index 2b68c76bc5..1060aa18cc 100644
--- a/roles/mirrormanager/crawler/files/crawler.cron
+++ b/roles/mirrormanager/crawler/files/crawler.cron
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@
 # [ "`hostname -s`" == "mm-crawler02" ] && sleep 2h is used to start the crawl
 # later on the second crawler to reduce the number of parallel accesses to
 # the database
-0 */12 * * * mirrormanager [ "`hostname -s`" == "mm-crawler02" ] && sleep 2h; /usr/bin/mm2_crawler --timeout-minutes 180 --threads 20 `/usr/local/bin/run_crawler.sh 2` > /dev/null 2>&1
+#0 */12 * * * mirrormanager [ "`hostname -s`" == "mm-crawler02" ] && sleep 2h; /usr/bin/mm2_crawler --timeout-minutes 180 --threads 20 `/usr/local/bin/run_crawler.sh 2` > /dev/null 2>&1