I've been posting about this same project for a few weeks, and getting great answers. I've learned if I want to work with lots of data quickly I need fast drives in the repository. but for now I'm stuck with my 7200rpm sata drives.
It takes about 10 min to take Ownership of a directory that has about 3.0gb /4,000files (I'm restoring from a different domain, fun), then it takes about 45min to drag and drop those files.
If I make the retention policy 1 day, and that's it, will that speed things up a bit? I'm doing it right now anyways. we don't use the inbound replicated machines for anything other than this project of moving corp data to our home base.