Slow Restore from Dropbox

Getting Help
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Hello,
I started using restic to backup a 360GB vhd file. It only takes few hours to save a snapshot but restoring it takes far too long.
It downloads at only 10Mbit/s although a speedtest results 90Mbit/s, so I can’t see any problem on the wire. The VM resources it’s running on are only being scratched, also I’m using rclone:dropbox backend.

Is it a known problem? What could I do to sort this out?

Thanks

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I’m not 100% sure, but I’ve seen on the rclone forums that Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive typically have slow transfer speeds. The size of a file may also have some effect here depending on the backend. In my experience, restic itself is quite fast, but ultimately it depends on the backend.

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The reason is that the restorer in restic is not yet optimized, there’s an open pull request which will do that once merged.

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Hi guys, an update on my issue.
I tried the restore with the “mt-restorer-ui” branch, which should allow much quicker times, but without success, in fact it is even slower.
Also note I gave plenty of resources to the VM, tried restoring on an iMac too, and a simple rclone copy from remote to local works as fast as my connections allows

Any advice would be helpful

Thanks