diff --git a/src/internal/m365/backup.go b/src/internal/m365/backup.go
index 477980f71..8d91ac419 100644
--- a/src/internal/m365/backup.go
+++ b/src/internal/m365/backup.go
@@ -46,8 +46,6 @@ func (ctrl *Controller) ProduceBackupCollections(
 		diagnostics.Index("service", bpc.Selector.PathService().String()))
 	defer end()
 
-	ctx = graph.BindRateLimiterConfig(ctx, graph.LimiterCfg{Service: service})
-
 	// Limit the max number of active requests to graph from this collection.
 	bpc.Options.Parallelism.ItemFetch = graph.Parallelism(service).
 		ItemOverride(ctx, bpc.Options.Parallelism.ItemFetch)
diff --git a/src/internal/m365/collection/drive/collection.go b/src/internal/m365/collection/drive/collection.go
index e27a94cdb..a472f7afe 100644
--- a/src/internal/m365/collection/drive/collection.go
+++ b/src/internal/m365/collection/drive/collection.go
@@ -589,14 +589,6 @@ func (oc *Collection) streamDriveItem(
 		parentPath)
 
 	ctx = clues.Add(ctx, "item_info", itemInfo)
-	// Drive content download requests are also rate limited by graph api.
-	// Ensure that this request goes through the drive limiter & not the default
-	// limiter.
-	ctx = graph.BindRateLimiterConfig(
-		ctx,
-		graph.LimiterCfg{
-			Service: path.OneDriveService,
-		})
 
 	if isFile {
 		dataSuffix := metadata.DataFileSuffix
diff --git a/src/internal/operations/backup.go b/src/internal/operations/backup.go
index 4a6f9c061..c369a447f 100644
--- a/src/internal/operations/backup.go
+++ b/src/internal/operations/backup.go
@@ -424,6 +424,13 @@ func (op *BackupOperation) do(
 		lastBackupVersion = mans.MinBackupVersion()
 	}
 
+	// Select an appropriate rate limiter for the service.
+	ctx = graph.BindRateLimiterConfig(
+		ctx,
+		graph.LimiterCfg{
+			Service: op.Selectors.PathService(),
+		})
+
 	// TODO(ashmrtn): This should probably just return a collection that deletes
 	// the entire subtree instead of returning an additional bool. That way base
 	// selection is controlled completely by flags and merging is controlled