diff --git a/br/pkg/restore/client.go b/br/pkg/restore/client.go
index ae33055dec0f5..0da911debb1ae 100644
--- a/br/pkg/restore/client.go
+++ b/br/pkg/restore/client.go
@@ -377,7 +377,9 @@ func (rc *Client) InitCheckpointMetadataForLogRestore(ctx context.Context, taskN
 	return gcRatio, nil
 }
 
-func (rc *Client) allocTableIDs(ctx context.Context, tables []*metautil.Table) error {
+// AllocTableIDs would pre-allocate the table's origin ID if exists, so that the TiKV doesn't need to rewrite the key in
+// the download stage.
+func (rc *Client) AllocTableIDs(ctx context.Context, tables []*metautil.Table) error {
 	rc.preallocedTableIDs = tidalloc.New(tables)
 	ctx = kv.WithInternalSourceType(ctx, kv.InternalTxnBR)
 	err := kv.RunInNewTxn(ctx, rc.GetDomain().Store(), true, func(_ context.Context, txn kv.Transaction) error {
@@ -955,11 +957,6 @@ func (rc *Client) GoCreateTables(
 	}
 	outCh := make(chan CreatedTable, len(tables))
 	rater := logutil.TraceRateOver(logutil.MetricTableCreatedCounter)
-	if err := rc.allocTableIDs(ctx, tables); err != nil {
-		errCh <- err
-		close(outCh)
-		return outCh
-	}
 
 	var err error
 
diff --git a/br/pkg/task/restore.go b/br/pkg/task/restore.go
index 2c2f693567545..7482c4b6eeaa7 100644
--- a/br/pkg/task/restore.go
+++ b/br/pkg/task/restore.go
@@ -882,6 +882,12 @@ func runRestore(c context.Context, g glue.Glue, cmdName string, cfg *RestoreConf
 		}
 	}
 
+	// preallocate the table id, because any ddl job or database creation also allocates the global ID
+	err = client.AllocTableIDs(ctx, tables)
+	if err != nil {
+		return errors.Trace(err)
+	}
+
 	// execute DDL first
 	err = client.ExecDDLs(ctx, ddlJobs)
 	if err != nil {