Restic backups crawl over high-latency links
Restic transfers over high-latency links stall near 5 MB/s because SFTP and rest-server limit parallel connections
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
5 public reports · first reported 27 April 2026 · last reported 11 May 2026
What's going wrong
A user backing up tens of terabytes to a distant server found that a single connection reached only a few megabytes per second on a long, lossy route.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
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