[insomniacity]

"many hours" is too high. Regardless of this incident, if backups take too long to restore, you may as well not have them.

[GL-pharrison]

I agree, the longer it takes to recover the less valuable the backups are. However, in this context where we're restoring individual repo's (and all the metadata baggage involved) it's much different than a DB restore or other disaster recovery/prevention mechanisms.

The per-repo restore time today is not where it should be. We're working to speed this up so we can help users recover and get back to a productive state quickly.