# Faster restore from rclone repository

**URL:** <https://kopia.discourse.group/t/faster-restore-from-rclone-repository/3716>\
**Category:** General Topics\
**Created:** [February 3, 2025, 7:16pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/faster-restore-from-rclone-repository/3716 "2025-02-03T19:16:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![xep22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/b5a626/32.png) [@xep22](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/xep22)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 7:16pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/faster-restore-from-rclone-repository/3716/1 "2025-02-03T19:16:32Z")

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hi,

I’m using a rclone google drive repository for backup my AppData von windows. restoring this is very slow because of many small files. Is there a fast way for restore ? Like to download as zip from the cloud instead of downloading all single files ?

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**Author:** ![kapitainsky](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kopia.discourse.group/kapitainsky/32/535_2.png) [@kapitainsky](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/kapitainsky)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 7:34pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/faster-restore-from-rclone-repository/3716/2 "2025-02-03T19:34:07Z")

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This is one of the rclone backend issues. Small files are slow in general but with rclone it is close to useless.

Before I gave up on rclone/kopia combo I used the following trick which makes restore many times faster.

Mount (as read-only to avoid any accidental changes) your remote with kopia files:

```auto
rclone mount rclone_remote:path/to/kopiafiles /path/to/localmountpoint --vfs-cache-mode=full --vfs-refresh --vfs-cache-max-age 9999h --dir-cache-time 9999h --vfs-cache-max-size 100G --read-only

```

Connect to this “new” kopia local repository located in `/path/to/localmountpoint`.

Enjoy light speed restore speed.