diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/pull-3508 b/changelog/unreleased/pull-3508
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c6e0f575e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/unreleased/pull-3508
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+Enhancement: Cache blobs read by the dump command
+
+When dumping a file using the `restic dump` command, restic did not cache blobs
+in any way, so even consecutive runs of the same blob did get loaded from the
+repository again and again, slowing down the dump.
+
+Now, the caching mechanism already used by the `fuse` command is also used by
+the `dump` command. This makes dumping much faster, especially for sparse files.
+
+https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3508
diff --git a/cmd/restic/cmd_dump.go b/cmd/restic/cmd_dump.go
index 667dc3875..4c8ed5b1d 100644
--- a/cmd/restic/cmd_dump.go
+++ b/cmd/restic/cmd_dump.go
@@ -95,7 +95,8 @@ func printFromTree(ctx context.Context, tree *restic.Tree, repo restic.Repositor
 		if node.Name == pathComponents[0] {
 			switch {
 			case l == 1 && dump.IsFile(node):
-				return dump.GetNodeData(ctx, os.Stdout, repo, node)
+				cache := dump.NewCache()
+				return dump.WriteNodeData(ctx, os.Stdout, repo, node, cache)
 			case l > 1 && dump.IsDir(node):
 				subtree, err := repo.LoadTree(ctx, *node.Subtree)
 				if err != nil {
diff --git a/internal/fuse/blobcache.go b/internal/bloblru/cache.go
similarity index 52%
rename from internal/fuse/blobcache.go
rename to internal/bloblru/cache.go
index 728457b11..dc977e650 100644
--- a/internal/fuse/blobcache.go
+++ b/internal/bloblru/cache.go
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-package fuse
+package bloblru
 
 import (
 	"sync"
@@ -10,12 +10,12 @@ import (
 )
 
 // Crude estimate of the overhead per blob: a SHA-256, a linked list node
-// and some pointers. See comment in blobCache.add.
-const cacheOverhead = len(restic.ID{}) + 64
+// and some pointers. See comment in Cache.add.
+const overhead = len(restic.ID{}) + 64
 
-// A blobCache is a fixed-size cache of blob contents.
+// A Cache is a fixed-size LRU cache of blob contents.
 // It is safe for concurrent access.
-type blobCache struct {
+type Cache struct {
 	mu sync.Mutex
 	c  *simplelru.LRU
 
@@ -23,16 +23,16 @@ type blobCache struct {
 }
 
 // Construct a blob cache that stores at most size bytes worth of blobs.
-func newBlobCache(size int) *blobCache {
-	c := &blobCache{
+func New(size int) *Cache {
+	c := &Cache{
 		free: size,
 		size: size,
 	}
 
 	// NewLRU wants us to specify some max. number of entries, else it errors.
-	// The actual maximum will be smaller than size/cacheOverhead, because we
+	// The actual maximum will be smaller than size/overhead, because we
 	// evict entries (RemoveOldest in add) to maintain our size bound.
-	maxEntries := size / cacheOverhead
+	maxEntries := size / overhead
 	lru, err := simplelru.NewLRU(maxEntries, c.evict)
 	if err != nil {
 		panic(err) // Can only be maxEntries <= 0.
@@ -42,10 +42,12 @@ func newBlobCache(size int) *blobCache {
 	return c
 }
 
-func (c *blobCache) add(id restic.ID, blob []byte) {
-	debug.Log("blobCache: add %v", id)
+// Add adds key id with value blob to c.
+// It may return an evicted buffer for reuse.
+func (c *Cache) Add(id restic.ID, blob []byte) (old []byte) {
+	debug.Log("bloblru.Cache: add %v", id)
 
-	size := len(blob) + cacheOverhead
+	size := len(blob) + overhead
 	if size > c.size {
 		return
 	}
@@ -59,29 +61,36 @@ func (c *blobCache) add(id restic.ID, blob []byte) {
 		return
 	}
 
-	// This loop takes at most min(maxEntries, maxchunksize/cacheOverhead)
+	// This loop takes at most min(maxEntries, maxchunksize/overhead)
 	// iterations.
 	for size > c.free {
-		c.c.RemoveOldest()
+		_, val, _ := c.c.RemoveOldest()
+		b := val.([]byte)
+		if len(b) > len(old) {
+			// We can only return one buffer, so pick the largest.
+			old = b
+		}
 	}
 
 	c.c.Add(key, blob)
 	c.free -= size
+
+	return old
 }
 
-func (c *blobCache) get(id restic.ID) ([]byte, bool) {
+func (c *Cache) Get(id restic.ID) ([]byte, bool) {
 	c.mu.Lock()
 	value, ok := c.c.Get(id)
 	c.mu.Unlock()
 
-	debug.Log("blobCache: get %v, hit %v", id, ok)
+	debug.Log("bloblru.Cache: get %v, hit %v", id, ok)
 
 	blob, ok := value.([]byte)
 	return blob, ok
 }
 
-func (c *blobCache) evict(key, value interface{}) {
+func (c *Cache) evict(key, value interface{}) {
 	blob := value.([]byte)
-	debug.Log("blobCache: evict %v, %d bytes", key, len(blob))
-	c.free += len(blob) + cacheOverhead
+	debug.Log("bloblru.Cache: evict %v, %d bytes", key, len(blob))
+	c.free += len(blob) + overhead
 }
diff --git a/internal/bloblru/cache_test.go b/internal/bloblru/cache_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c257a95e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/bloblru/cache_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+package bloblru
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/restic/restic/internal/restic"
+	rtest "github.com/restic/restic/internal/test"
+)
+
+func TestCache(t *testing.T) {
+	var id1, id2, id3 restic.ID
+	id1[0] = 1
+	id2[0] = 2
+	id3[0] = 3
+
+	const (
+		kiB       = 1 << 10
+		cacheSize = 64*kiB + 3*overhead
+	)
+
+	c := New(cacheSize)
+
+	addAndCheck := func(id restic.ID, exp []byte) {
+		c.Add(id, exp)
+		blob, ok := c.Get(id)
+		rtest.Assert(t, ok, "blob %v added but not found in cache", id)
+		rtest.Equals(t, &exp[0], &blob[0])
+		rtest.Equals(t, exp, blob)
+	}
+
+	addAndCheck(id1, make([]byte, 32*kiB))
+	addAndCheck(id2, make([]byte, 30*kiB))
+	addAndCheck(id3, make([]byte, 10*kiB))
+
+	_, ok := c.Get(id2)
+	rtest.Assert(t, ok, "blob %v not present", id2)
+	_, ok = c.Get(id1)
+	rtest.Assert(t, !ok, "blob %v present, but should have been evicted", id1)
+
+	c.Add(id1, make([]byte, 1+c.size))
+	_, ok = c.Get(id1)
+	rtest.Assert(t, !ok, "blob %v too large but still added to cache")
+
+	c.c.Remove(id1)
+	c.c.Remove(id3)
+	c.c.Remove(id2)
+
+	rtest.Equals(t, cacheSize, c.size)
+	rtest.Equals(t, cacheSize, c.free)
+}
diff --git a/internal/dump/common.go b/internal/dump/common.go
index eb02b1c2e..7ef0c93e4 100644
--- a/internal/dump/common.go
+++ b/internal/dump/common.go
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"io"
 	"path"
 
+	"github.com/restic/restic/internal/bloblru"
 	"github.com/restic/restic/internal/errors"
 	"github.com/restic/restic/internal/restic"
 	"github.com/restic/restic/internal/walker"
@@ -20,7 +21,11 @@ type dumper interface {
 // It will loop over all nodes in the tree and dump them recursively.
 type WriteDump func(ctx context.Context, repo restic.Repository, tree *restic.Tree, rootPath string, dst io.Writer) error
 
-func writeDump(ctx context.Context, repo restic.Repository, tree *restic.Tree, rootPath string, dmp dumper, dst io.Writer) error {
+func NewCache() *bloblru.Cache {
+	return bloblru.New(64 << 20)
+}
+
+func writeDump(ctx context.Context, repo restic.Repository, tree *restic.Tree, rootPath string, dmp dumper) error {
 	for _, rootNode := range tree.Nodes {
 		rootNode.Path = rootPath
 		err := dumpTree(ctx, repo, rootNode, rootPath, dmp)
@@ -71,20 +76,24 @@ func dumpTree(ctx context.Context, repo restic.Repository, rootNode *restic.Node
 	return err
 }
 
-// GetNodeData will write the contents of the node to the given output.
-func GetNodeData(ctx context.Context, output io.Writer, repo restic.Repository, node *restic.Node) error {
+// WriteNodeData writes the contents of the node to the given Writer.
+func WriteNodeData(ctx context.Context, w io.Writer, repo restic.Repository, node *restic.Node, cache *bloblru.Cache) error {
 	var (
 		buf []byte
 		err error
 	)
 	for _, id := range node.Content {
-		buf, err = repo.LoadBlob(ctx, restic.DataBlob, id, buf)
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
+		blob, ok := cache.Get(id)
+		if !ok {
+			blob, err = repo.LoadBlob(ctx, restic.DataBlob, id, buf)
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+
+			buf = cache.Add(id, blob) // Reuse evicted buffer.
 		}
 
-		_, err = output.Write(buf)
-		if err != nil {
+		if _, err := w.Write(blob); err != nil {
 			return errors.Wrap(err, "Write")
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/internal/dump/tar.go b/internal/dump/tar.go
index f9716d152..57225cf66 100644
--- a/internal/dump/tar.go
+++ b/internal/dump/tar.go
@@ -8,25 +8,29 @@ import (
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
 
+	"github.com/restic/restic/internal/bloblru"
 	"github.com/restic/restic/internal/errors"
 	"github.com/restic/restic/internal/restic"
 )
 
 type tarDumper struct {
-	w *tar.Writer
+	cache *bloblru.Cache
+	w     *tar.Writer
 }
 
 // Statically ensure that tarDumper implements dumper.
-var _ dumper = tarDumper{}
+var _ dumper = &tarDumper{}
 
 // WriteTar will write the contents of the given tree, encoded as a tar to the given destination.
 func WriteTar(ctx context.Context, repo restic.Repository, tree *restic.Tree, rootPath string, dst io.Writer) error {
-	dmp := tarDumper{w: tar.NewWriter(dst)}
-
-	return writeDump(ctx, repo, tree, rootPath, dmp, dst)
+	dmp := &tarDumper{
+		cache: NewCache(),
+		w:     tar.NewWriter(dst),
+	}
+	return writeDump(ctx, repo, tree, rootPath, dmp)
 }
 
-func (dmp tarDumper) Close() error {
+func (dmp *tarDumper) Close() error {
 	return dmp.w.Close()
 }
 
@@ -39,7 +43,7 @@ const (
 	cISVTX = 0o1000 // Save text (sticky bit)
 )
 
-func (dmp tarDumper) dumpNode(ctx context.Context, node *restic.Node, repo restic.Repository) error {
+func (dmp *tarDumper) dumpNode(ctx context.Context, node *restic.Node, repo restic.Repository) error {
 	relPath, err := filepath.Rel("/", node.Path)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
@@ -90,7 +94,7 @@ func (dmp tarDumper) dumpNode(ctx context.Context, node *restic.Node, repo resti
 		return errors.Wrap(err, "TarHeader")
 	}
 
-	return GetNodeData(ctx, dmp.w, repo, node)
+	return WriteNodeData(ctx, dmp.w, repo, node, dmp.cache)
 }
 
 func parseXattrs(xattrs []restic.ExtendedAttribute) map[string]string {
diff --git a/internal/dump/zip.go b/internal/dump/zip.go
index f1e779d8e..96e2c95b9 100644
--- a/internal/dump/zip.go
+++ b/internal/dump/zip.go
@@ -6,29 +6,33 @@ import (
 	"io"
 	"path/filepath"
 
+	"github.com/restic/restic/internal/bloblru"
 	"github.com/restic/restic/internal/errors"
 	"github.com/restic/restic/internal/restic"
 )
 
 type zipDumper struct {
-	w *zip.Writer
+	cache *bloblru.Cache
+	w     *zip.Writer
 }
 
 // Statically ensure that zipDumper implements dumper.
-var _ dumper = zipDumper{}
+var _ dumper = &zipDumper{}
 
 // WriteZip will write the contents of the given tree, encoded as a zip to the given destination.
 func WriteZip(ctx context.Context, repo restic.Repository, tree *restic.Tree, rootPath string, dst io.Writer) error {
-	dmp := zipDumper{w: zip.NewWriter(dst)}
-
-	return writeDump(ctx, repo, tree, rootPath, dmp, dst)
+	dmp := &zipDumper{
+		cache: NewCache(),
+		w:     zip.NewWriter(dst),
+	}
+	return writeDump(ctx, repo, tree, rootPath, dmp)
 }
 
-func (dmp zipDumper) Close() error {
+func (dmp *zipDumper) Close() error {
 	return dmp.w.Close()
 }
 
-func (dmp zipDumper) dumpNode(ctx context.Context, node *restic.Node, repo restic.Repository) error {
+func (dmp *zipDumper) dumpNode(ctx context.Context, node *restic.Node, repo restic.Repository) error {
 	relPath, err := filepath.Rel("/", node.Path)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
@@ -58,5 +62,5 @@ func (dmp zipDumper) dumpNode(ctx context.Context, node *restic.Node, repo resti
 		return nil
 	}
 
-	return GetNodeData(ctx, w, repo, node)
+	return WriteNodeData(ctx, w, repo, node, dmp.cache)
 }
diff --git a/internal/fuse/file.go b/internal/fuse/file.go
index def7ae85e..2de2660e3 100644
--- a/internal/fuse/file.go
+++ b/internal/fuse/file.go
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ func (f *file) Open(ctx context.Context, req *fuse.OpenRequest, resp *fuse.OpenR
 
 func (f *openFile) getBlobAt(ctx context.Context, i int) (blob []byte, err error) {
 
-	blob, ok := f.root.blobCache.get(f.node.Content[i])
+	blob, ok := f.root.blobCache.Get(f.node.Content[i])
 	if ok {
 		return blob, nil
 	}
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ func (f *openFile) getBlobAt(ctx context.Context, i int) (blob []byte, err error
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	f.root.blobCache.add(f.node.Content[i], blob)
+	f.root.blobCache.Add(f.node.Content[i], blob)
 
 	return blob, nil
 }
diff --git a/internal/fuse/fuse_test.go b/internal/fuse/fuse_test.go
index 24d8cf03d..690df770a 100644
--- a/internal/fuse/fuse_test.go
+++ b/internal/fuse/fuse_test.go
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+//go:build darwin || freebsd || linux
 // +build darwin freebsd linux
 
 package fuse
@@ -10,6 +11,7 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
+	"github.com/restic/restic/internal/bloblru"
 	"github.com/restic/restic/internal/repository"
 	"github.com/restic/restic/internal/restic"
 
@@ -19,48 +21,6 @@ import (
 	rtest "github.com/restic/restic/internal/test"
 )
 
-func TestCache(t *testing.T) {
-	var id1, id2, id3 restic.ID
-	id1[0] = 1
-	id2[0] = 2
-	id3[0] = 3
-
-	const (
-		kiB       = 1 << 10
-		cacheSize = 64*kiB + 3*cacheOverhead
-	)
-
-	c := newBlobCache(cacheSize)
-
-	addAndCheck := func(id restic.ID, exp []byte) {
-		c.add(id, exp)
-		blob, ok := c.get(id)
-		rtest.Assert(t, ok, "blob %v added but not found in cache", id)
-		rtest.Equals(t, &exp[0], &blob[0])
-		rtest.Equals(t, exp, blob)
-	}
-
-	addAndCheck(id1, make([]byte, 32*kiB))
-	addAndCheck(id2, make([]byte, 30*kiB))
-	addAndCheck(id3, make([]byte, 10*kiB))
-
-	_, ok := c.get(id2)
-	rtest.Assert(t, ok, "blob %v not present", id2)
-	_, ok = c.get(id1)
-	rtest.Assert(t, !ok, "blob %v present, but should have been evicted", id1)
-
-	c.add(id1, make([]byte, 1+c.size))
-	_, ok = c.get(id1)
-	rtest.Assert(t, !ok, "blob %v too large but still added to cache")
-
-	c.c.Remove(id1)
-	c.c.Remove(id3)
-	c.c.Remove(id2)
-
-	rtest.Equals(t, cacheSize, c.size)
-	rtest.Equals(t, cacheSize, c.free)
-}
-
 func testRead(t testing.TB, f fs.Handle, offset, length int, data []byte) {
 	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
 	defer cancel()
@@ -156,7 +116,7 @@ func TestFuseFile(t *testing.T) {
 		Size:    filesize,
 		Content: content,
 	}
-	root := &Root{repo: repo, blobCache: newBlobCache(blobCacheSize)}
+	root := &Root{repo: repo, blobCache: bloblru.New(blobCacheSize)}
 
 	inode := fs.GenerateDynamicInode(1, "foo")
 	f, err := newFile(context.TODO(), root, inode, node)
@@ -191,7 +151,7 @@ func TestFuseDir(t *testing.T) {
 	repo, cleanup := repository.TestRepository(t)
 	defer cleanup()
 
-	root := &Root{repo: repo, blobCache: newBlobCache(blobCacheSize)}
+	root := &Root{repo: repo, blobCache: bloblru.New(blobCacheSize)}
 
 	node := &restic.Node{
 		Mode:       0755,
diff --git a/internal/fuse/root.go b/internal/fuse/root.go
index ecbd10546..bed760f02 100644
--- a/internal/fuse/root.go
+++ b/internal/fuse/root.go
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+//go:build darwin || freebsd || linux
 // +build darwin freebsd linux
 
 package fuse
@@ -6,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"time"
 
+	"github.com/restic/restic/internal/bloblru"
 	"github.com/restic/restic/internal/debug"
 	"github.com/restic/restic/internal/restic"
 
@@ -27,7 +29,7 @@ type Root struct {
 	cfg       Config
 	inode     uint64
 	snapshots restic.Snapshots
-	blobCache *blobCache
+	blobCache *bloblru.Cache
 
 	snCount   int
 	lastCheck time.Time
@@ -54,7 +56,7 @@ func NewRoot(repo restic.Repository, cfg Config) *Root {
 		repo:      repo,
 		inode:     rootInode,
 		cfg:       cfg,
-		blobCache: newBlobCache(blobCacheSize),
+		blobCache: bloblru.New(blobCacheSize),
 	}
 
 	if !cfg.OwnerIsRoot {