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+Enhancement: SFTP backend initialization is faster on slow links
+
+Restic init on an SFTP backend now sends multiple mkdir commands to the
+backend concurrently, to reduce the wait when creating a repository
+over a very slow link.
+
+https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3837
+https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3840