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doc/050_restore.rst: Mention that restic restore is fastest 

Especially with lots of files (like when backing up git repos),
restic mount + cp -r can be really slow.
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@ -96,6 +96,11 @@ hard links from a fuse mount should be done by a program that preserves
hard links. A program that does so is ``rsync``, used with the option
--hard-links.
.. note:: ``restic mount`` is mostly useful if you want to restore just a few
files out of a snapshot, or to check which files are contained in a snapshot.
To restore many files or a whole snapshot, ``restic restore`` is the best
alternative, often it is *significantly* faster.
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