We've upgraded to Moodle 2.8.7 and are still experiencing the problem.
This is *somewhat* related to the follwoing
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=268181#p1273205
https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-35429
Backup and restore
Prevent restores without preventing backups
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