diff --git a/pkg/backup/client.go b/pkg/backup/client.go
index 72563096b..1b016ba8b 100644
--- a/pkg/backup/client.go
+++ b/pkg/backup/client.go
@@ -48,6 +48,13 @@ type ClientMgr interface {
 	Close()
 }
 
+// Checksum is the checksum of some backup files calculated by CollectChecksums.
+type Checksum struct {
+	Crc64Xor   uint64
+	TotalKvs   uint64
+	TotalBytes uint64
+}
+
 // Maximum total sleep time(in ms) for kv/cop commands.
 const (
 	backupFineGrainedMaxBackoff = 80000
@@ -748,8 +755,59 @@ func SendBackup(
 	return nil
 }
 
-// FastChecksum check data integrity by xor all(sst_checksum) per table
-func (bc *Client) FastChecksum() (bool, error) {
+// ChecksumMatches tests whether the "local" checksum matches the checksum from TiKV.
+func (bc *Client) ChecksumMatches(local []Checksum) (bool, error) {
+	if len(local) != len(bc.backupMeta.Schemas) {
+		return false, nil
+	}
+
+	for i, schema := range bc.backupMeta.Schemas {
+		localChecksum := local[i]
+		dbInfo := &model.DBInfo{}
+		err := json.Unmarshal(schema.Db, dbInfo)
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Error("failed in fast checksum, and cannot parse db info.")
+			return false, err
+		}
+		tblInfo := &model.TableInfo{}
+		err = json.Unmarshal(schema.Table, tblInfo)
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Error("failed in fast checksum, and cannot parse table info.")
+			return false, err
+		}
+		if localChecksum.Crc64Xor != schema.Crc64Xor ||
+			localChecksum.TotalBytes != schema.TotalBytes ||
+			localChecksum.TotalKvs != schema.TotalKvs {
+			log.Error("failed in fast checksum",
+				zap.Stringer("db", dbInfo.Name),
+				zap.Stringer("table", tblInfo.Name),
+				zap.Uint64("origin tidb crc64", schema.Crc64Xor),
+				zap.Uint64("calculated crc64", localChecksum.Crc64Xor),
+				zap.Uint64("origin tidb total kvs", schema.TotalKvs),
+				zap.Uint64("calculated total kvs", localChecksum.TotalKvs),
+				zap.Uint64("origin tidb total bytes", schema.TotalBytes),
+				zap.Uint64("calculated total bytes", localChecksum.TotalBytes),
+			)
+			return false, nil
+		}
+		log.Info("fast checksum success",
+			zap.String("database", dbInfo.Name.L),
+			zap.String("table", tblInfo.Name.L))
+	}
+	return true, nil
+}
+
+// CollectFileInfo collects ungrouped file summary information, like kv count and size.
+func (bc *Client) CollectFileInfo() {
+	for _, file := range bc.backupMeta.Files {
+		summary.CollectSuccessUnit(summary.TotalKV, 1, file.TotalKvs)
+		summary.CollectSuccessUnit(summary.TotalBytes, 1, file.TotalBytes)
+	}
+}
+
+// CollectChecksums check data integrity by xor all(sst_checksum) per table
+// it returns the checksum of all local files.
+func (bc *Client) CollectChecksums() ([]Checksum, error) {
 	start := time.Now()
 	defer func() {
 		elapsed := time.Since(start)
@@ -758,19 +816,20 @@ func (bc *Client) FastChecksum() (bool, error) {
 
 	dbs, err := utils.LoadBackupTables(&bc.backupMeta)
 	if err != nil {
-		return false, err
+		return nil, err
 	}
 
+	checksums := make([]Checksum, 0, len(bc.backupMeta.Schemas))
 	for _, schema := range bc.backupMeta.Schemas {
 		dbInfo := &model.DBInfo{}
 		err = json.Unmarshal(schema.Db, dbInfo)
 		if err != nil {
-			return false, err
+			return nil, err
 		}
 		tblInfo := &model.TableInfo{}
 		err = json.Unmarshal(schema.Table, tblInfo)
 		if err != nil {
-			return false, err
+			return nil, err
 		}
 		tbl := dbs[dbInfo.Name.String()].GetTable(tblInfo.Name.String())
 
@@ -785,25 +844,16 @@ func (bc *Client) FastChecksum() (bool, error) {
 
 		summary.CollectSuccessUnit(summary.TotalKV, 1, totalKvs)
 		summary.CollectSuccessUnit(summary.TotalBytes, 1, totalBytes)
-
-		if schema.Crc64Xor == checksum && schema.TotalKvs == totalKvs && schema.TotalBytes == totalBytes {
-			log.Info("fast checksum success", zap.Stringer("db", dbInfo.Name), zap.Stringer("table", tblInfo.Name))
-		} else {
-			log.Error("failed in fast checksum",
-				zap.String("database", dbInfo.Name.String()),
-				zap.String("table", tblInfo.Name.String()),
-				zap.Uint64("origin tidb crc64", schema.Crc64Xor),
-				zap.Uint64("calculated crc64", checksum),
-				zap.Uint64("origin tidb total kvs", schema.TotalKvs),
-				zap.Uint64("calculated total kvs", totalKvs),
-				zap.Uint64("origin tidb total bytes", schema.TotalBytes),
-				zap.Uint64("calculated total bytes", totalBytes),
-			)
-			return false, nil
+		log.Info("fast checksum calculated", zap.Stringer("db", dbInfo.Name), zap.Stringer("table", tblInfo.Name))
+		localChecksum := Checksum{
+			Crc64Xor:   checksum,
+			TotalKvs:   totalKvs,
+			TotalBytes: totalBytes,
 		}
+		checksums = append(checksums, localChecksum)
 	}
 
-	return true, nil
+	return checksums, nil
 }
 
 // CompleteMeta wait response of admin checksum from TiDB to complete backup meta
@@ -815,3 +865,14 @@ func (bc *Client) CompleteMeta(backupSchemas *Schemas) error {
 	bc.backupMeta.Schemas = schemas
 	return nil
 }
+
+// CopyMetaFrom copies schema metadata directly from pending backupSchemas, without calculating checksum.
+// use this when user skip the checksum generating.
+func (bc *Client) CopyMetaFrom(backupSchemas *Schemas) {
+	schemas := make([]*kvproto.Schema, 0, len(backupSchemas.schemas))
+	for _, v := range backupSchemas.schemas {
+		schema := v
+		schemas = append(schemas, &schema)
+	}
+	bc.backupMeta.Schemas = schemas
+}
diff --git a/pkg/backup/schema.go b/pkg/backup/schema.go
index 73a62477d..d1b5943a8 100644
--- a/pkg/backup/schema.go
+++ b/pkg/backup/schema.go
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ type Schemas struct {
 	backupSchemaCh chan backup.Schema
 	errCh          chan error
 	wg             *sync.WaitGroup
-	skipChecksum   bool
 }
 
 func newBackupSchemas() *Schemas {
@@ -57,11 +56,6 @@ func (pending *Schemas) pushPending(
 	pending.schemas[name] = schema
 }
 
-// SetSkipChecksum sets whether it should skip checksum
-func (pending *Schemas) SetSkipChecksum(skip bool) {
-	pending.skipChecksum = skip
-}
-
 // Start backups schemas
 func (pending *Schemas) Start(
 	ctx context.Context,
@@ -81,12 +75,6 @@ func (pending *Schemas) Start(
 			workerPool.Apply(func() {
 				defer pending.wg.Done()
 
-				if pending.skipChecksum {
-					pending.backupSchemaCh <- schema
-					updateCh.Inc()
-					return
-				}
-
 				start := time.Now()
 				table := model.TableInfo{}
 				err := json.Unmarshal(schema.Table, &table)
diff --git a/pkg/restore/client.go b/pkg/restore/client.go
index fde382fb0..2b685e599 100644
--- a/pkg/restore/client.go
+++ b/pkg/restore/client.go
@@ -650,6 +650,14 @@ func (rc *Client) ValidateChecksum(
 			workers.Apply(func() {
 				defer wg.Done()
 
+				if table.NoChecksum() {
+					log.Info("table doesn't have checksum, skipping checksum",
+						zap.Stringer("db", table.Db.Name),
+						zap.Stringer("table", table.Info.Name))
+					updateCh.Inc()
+					return
+				}
+
 				startTS, err := rc.GetTS(ctx)
 				if err != nil {
 					errCh <- errors.Trace(err)
diff --git a/pkg/task/backup.go b/pkg/task/backup.go
index 040be0444..43a426b0f 100644
--- a/pkg/task/backup.go
+++ b/pkg/task/backup.go
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ import (
 	"strconv"
 	"time"
 
+	"github.com/pingcap/br/pkg/utils"
+
 	"github.com/pingcap/errors"
 	kvproto "github.com/pingcap/kvproto/pkg/backup"
 	"github.com/pingcap/log"
@@ -180,39 +182,32 @@ func RunBackup(c context.Context, g glue.Glue, cmdName string, cfg *BackupConfig
 	// Backup has finished
 	updateCh.Close()
 
-	// Checksum
-	backupSchemasConcurrency := backup.DefaultSchemaConcurrency
-	if backupSchemas.Len() < backupSchemasConcurrency {
-		backupSchemasConcurrency = backupSchemas.Len()
-	}
-	updateCh = g.StartProgress(
-		ctx, "Checksum", int64(backupSchemas.Len()), !cfg.LogProgress)
-	backupSchemas.SetSkipChecksum(!cfg.Checksum)
-	backupSchemas.Start(
-		ctx, mgr.GetTiKV(), backupTS, uint(backupSchemasConcurrency), updateCh)
-
-	err = client.CompleteMeta(backupSchemas)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
-	if cfg.LastBackupTS == 0 {
-		var valid bool
-		valid, err = client.FastChecksum()
+	// Checksum from server, and then fulfill the backup metadata.
+	if cfg.Checksum {
+		backupSchemasConcurrency := utils.MinInt(backup.DefaultSchemaConcurrency, backupSchemas.Len())
+		updateCh = g.StartProgress(
+			ctx, "Checksum", int64(backupSchemas.Len()), !cfg.LogProgress)
+		backupSchemas.Start(
+			ctx, mgr.GetTiKV(), backupTS, uint(backupSchemasConcurrency), updateCh)
+		err = client.CompleteMeta(backupSchemas)
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
-		if !valid {
-			log.Error("backup FastChecksum mismatch!")
-			return errors.Errorf("mismatched checksum")
+		// Checksum has finished
+		updateCh.Close()
+		// collect file information.
+		err = checkChecksums(client, cfg)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
 		}
-
 	} else {
-		// Since we don't support checksum for incremental data, fast checksum should be skipped.
-		log.Info("Skip fast checksum in incremental backup")
+		// When user specified not to calculate checksum, don't calculate checksum.
+		// Just... copy schemas from origin.
+		log.Info("Skip fast checksum because user requirement.")
+		client.CopyMetaFrom(backupSchemas)
+		// Anyway, let's collect file info for summary.
+		client.CollectFileInfo()
 	}
-	// Checksum has finished
-	updateCh.Close()
 
 	err = client.SaveBackupMeta(ctx, ddlJobs)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -224,6 +219,30 @@ func RunBackup(c context.Context, g glue.Glue, cmdName string, cfg *BackupConfig
 	return nil
 }
 
+// checkChecksums checks the checksum of the client, once failed,
+// returning a error with message: "mismatched checksum".
+func checkChecksums(client *backup.Client, cfg *BackupConfig) error {
+	checksums, err := client.CollectChecksums()
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if cfg.LastBackupTS == 0 {
+		var matches bool
+		matches, err = client.ChecksumMatches(checksums)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		if !matches {
+			log.Error("backup FastChecksum mismatch!")
+			return errors.New("mismatched checksum")
+		}
+		return nil
+	}
+	// Since we don't support checksum for incremental data, fast checksum should be skipped.
+	log.Info("Skip fast checksum in incremental backup")
+	return nil
+}
+
 // parseTSString port from tidb setSnapshotTS
 func parseTSString(ts string) (uint64, error) {
 	if len(ts) == 0 {
diff --git a/pkg/task/restore.go b/pkg/task/restore.go
index 16061bd94..4cd470367 100644
--- a/pkg/task/restore.go
+++ b/pkg/task/restore.go
@@ -224,10 +224,7 @@ func RunRestore(c context.Context, g glue.Glue, cmdName string, cfg *RestoreConf
 	}
 
 	// Restore sst files in batch.
-	batchSize := int(cfg.Concurrency)
-	if batchSize > maxRestoreBatchSizeLimit {
-		batchSize = maxRestoreBatchSizeLimit // 256
-	}
+	batchSize := utils.MinInt(int(cfg.Concurrency), maxRestoreBatchSizeLimit)
 
 	tiflashStores, err := conn.GetAllTiKVStores(ctx, client.GetPDClient(), conn.TiFlashOnly)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -242,9 +239,7 @@ func RunRestore(c context.Context, g glue.Glue, cmdName string, cfg *RestoreConf
 		if len(ranges) == 0 {
 			break
 		}
-		if batchSize > len(ranges) {
-			batchSize = len(ranges)
-		}
+		batchSize = utils.MinInt(batchSize, len(ranges))
 		var rangeBatch []rtree.Range
 		ranges, rangeBatch = ranges[batchSize:], ranges[0:batchSize:batchSize]
 
@@ -287,14 +282,16 @@ func RunRestore(c context.Context, g glue.Glue, cmdName string, cfg *RestoreConf
 	updateCh.Close()
 
 	// Checksum
-	updateCh = g.StartProgress(
-		ctx, "Checksum", int64(len(newTables)), !cfg.LogProgress)
-	err = client.ValidateChecksum(
-		ctx, mgr.GetTiKV().GetClient(), tables, newTables, updateCh)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
+	if cfg.Checksum {
+		updateCh = g.StartProgress(
+			ctx, "Checksum", int64(len(newTables)), !cfg.LogProgress)
+		err = client.ValidateChecksum(
+			ctx, mgr.GetTiKV().GetClient(), tables, newTables, updateCh)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		updateCh.Close()
 	}
-	updateCh.Close()
 
 	// Set task summary to success status.
 	summary.SetSuccessStatus(true)
diff --git a/pkg/utils/math.go b/pkg/utils/math.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..00c8dcc4b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/utils/math.go
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+// Copyright 2020 PingCAP, Inc. Licensed under Apache-2.0.
+
+package utils
+
+// MinInt choice smaller integer from its two arguments.
+func MinInt(x, y int) int {
+	if x < y {
+		return x
+	}
+
+	return y
+}
diff --git a/pkg/utils/math_test.go b/pkg/utils/math_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..90c8e6bed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/utils/math_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+// Copyright 2020 PingCAP, Inc. Licensed under Apache-2.0.
+
+package utils
+
+import (
+	. "github.com/pingcap/check"
+)
+
+type testMathSuite struct{}
+
+var _ = Suite(&testMathSuite{})
+
+func (*testMathSuite) TestMinInt(c *C) {
+	c.Assert(MinInt(1, 2), Equals, 1)
+	c.Assert(MinInt(2, 1), Equals, 1)
+	c.Assert(MinInt(1, 1), Equals, 1)
+}
diff --git a/pkg/utils/schema.go b/pkg/utils/schema.go
index 5ac439e36..a135dac1c 100644
--- a/pkg/utils/schema.go
+++ b/pkg/utils/schema.go
@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ type Table struct {
 	TiFlashReplicas int
 }
 
+// NoChecksum checks whether the table has a calculated checksum.
+func (tbl *Table) NoChecksum() bool {
+	return tbl.Crc64Xor == 0 && tbl.TotalKvs == 0 && tbl.TotalBytes == 0
+}
+
 // Database wraps the schema and tables of a database.
 type Database struct {
 	Info   *model.DBInfo
diff --git a/tests/br_skip_checksum/run.sh b/tests/br_skip_checksum/run.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..f4b93adea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/br_skip_checksum/run.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Copyright 2020 PingCAP, Inc.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+set -eu
+DB="$TEST_NAME"
+TABLE="usertable"
+DB_COUNT=3
+
+for i in $(seq $DB_COUNT); do
+    run_sql "CREATE DATABASE $DB${i};"
+    go-ycsb load mysql -P tests/$TEST_NAME/workload -p mysql.host=$TIDB_IP -p mysql.port=$TIDB_PORT -p mysql.user=root -p mysql.db=$DB${i}
+done
+
+for i in $(seq $DB_COUNT); do
+    row_count_ori[${i}]=$(run_sql "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $DB${i}.$TABLE;" | awk '/COUNT/{print $2}')
+done
+
+# backup full, skipping generate checksum.
+echo "backup start..."
+run_br --pd $PD_ADDR backup full -s "local://$TEST_DIR/$DB" --ratelimit 5 --concurrency 4 --checksum=false
+
+for i in $(seq $DB_COUNT); do
+    run_sql "DROP DATABASE $DB${i};"
+done
+
+# restore full, skipping genreate checksum.
+echo "restore start..."
+run_br restore full -s "local://$TEST_DIR/$DB" --pd $PD_ADDR --ratelimit 1024 --checksum=false
+
+for i in $(seq $DB_COUNT); do
+    row_count_new[${i}]=$(run_sql "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $DB${i}.$TABLE;" | awk '/COUNT/{print $2}')
+done
+
+fail=false
+for i in $(seq $DB_COUNT); do
+    if [ "${row_count_ori[i]}" != "${row_count_new[i]}" ];then
+        fail=true
+        echo "TEST: [$TEST_NAME] fail on database $DB${i}"
+    fi
+    echo "database $DB${i} [original] row count: ${row_count_ori[i]}, [after br] row count: ${row_count_new[i]}"
+done
+
+if $fail; then
+    echo "TEST: [$TEST_NAME] failed on restore with skipping checksum!"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Let drop it again. Try to restore without disable checksum.
+for i in $(seq $DB_COUNT); do
+    run_sql "DROP DATABASE $DB${i};"
+done
+echo "restore(with checksum) start..."
+run_br restore full -s "local://$TEST_DIR/$DB" --pd $PD_ADDR --ratelimit 1024
+
+for i in $(seq $DB_COUNT); do
+    row_count_new[${i}]=$(run_sql "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $DB${i}.$TABLE;" | awk '/COUNT/{print $2}')
+done
+
+for i in $(seq $DB_COUNT); do
+    if [ "${row_count_ori[i]}" != "${row_count_new[i]}" ];then
+        fail=true
+        echo "TEST: [$TEST_NAME] fail on database $DB${i}"
+    fi
+    echo "database $DB${i} [original] row count: ${row_count_ori[i]}, [after br] row count: ${row_count_new[i]}"
+done
+
+if $fail; then
+    echo "TEST: [$TEST_NAME] failed on restore without skipping checksum!"
+    exit 1
+else
+    echo "TEST $TEST_NAME passed."
+fi
+
+for i in $(seq $DB_COUNT); do
+    run_sql "DROP DATABASE $DB${i};"
+done
diff --git a/tests/br_skip_checksum/workload b/tests/br_skip_checksum/workload
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..84335df96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/br_skip_checksum/workload
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+recordcount=100
+operationcount=0
+workload=core
+
+readallfields=true
+
+readproportion=0
+updateproportion=0
+scanproportion=0
+insertproportion=0
+
+requestdistribution=uniform
\ No newline at end of file