decided to wait it out - about 3.5 hours passed with nothing downloading and then it started again. I guess CB only requests 10k files at a time?

Left it going overnight, and just checked on it now and it's stopped at 30,000

So, this 2nd restore which I thought would go faster since there should be less data/files to restore, seems to be going even slower then my first one, i assume due to this 3.5 hour stop for every 10,000 files. It's currently been running for 25 hours and has restored 56,000 files 70gb. I looked through the history of the first restore and I don't see any pauses like this in that one. The only difference I can think of between the two is this 2nd one is encrypted. And I did not restore every file in the vault, i select a set of files. In the first one i restored the entire vault.

More then happy to send you any log files or anything if that helps figure out why it's doing this.

finally finished - took 2 day and 8 hours to restore 102,000 files totally 1.2tb of data. But over a day of that time was it just doing nothing since it kept pausing every 10,000 files.

I was just looking through the history for this restore and noticed something odd. Last night at 9pm is was restoring a batch of files that ranged from under 1 meg to 50meg. At the start it was restoring maybe 2-3 files a minute. And around 9:20pm it suddenly started going much faster, with more then 1 file a second. And then shortly after 10pm it suddenly went back down to 2-3 files a minute. The file sizes stayed roughly the same the whole time. This seems more like it would be an issue with amazon and not cb, since if it was a problem with the software I'd expect the transfer rate would stay roughly the same the whole time.