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Why would the speed of the backup process matter?
Backups are worthless if you cannot restore them quickly.
Exactly.
A backup or disaster recovery plan needs to have some parameters for RTO (recovery time objective). When the achievable data transfer speed from your backup location goes from 900 Mbit/sec (as it was in the past) to 60 Mbit/sec, this makes a difference.
It's not terribly useful having terabytes of backups at a certain location when it will take weeks to restore them to production.
As for the backup process itself, no, it's not terribly important. But it's a constant reminder that there are issues with the transfer speed, which doesn't bode well.
lol
Those benchmarks are impressive
Some services need to be stopped for a proper backup and that directly translates to longer downtime. Going from 15 seconds to 30 seconds likely won't matter, but going from 45 seconds to 3 minutes would get noticed if done 365/year.