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+Enhancement: Allow limiting IO concurrency for local and sftp backend
+
+restic did not support limiting the IO concurrency / number of connections for
+accessing repositories stored using the local or sftp backend. The number of
+connections is now limited as for other backends. It can be configured via the
+the `-o local.connections=2` and `-o sftp.connections=5` options.
+
+https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3475