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Add quickstart introduction to repositories & archives (fixes #3620)

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@ -13,6 +13,17 @@ A step by step example
.. include:: quickstart_example.rst.inc
Archives and repositories
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A Borg archive is used similarly to a tarball in a simpler backup system. When ``borg create``
is run on a path, the current state of the files therein is stored in an archive. One can later
extract or mount an archive to restore from a backup.
Repositories are self-contained stores of archives that can be stored locally or remotely.
Archives stored inside a repository are deduplicated with one another, which is why Borg
shines for incremental backups.
Important note about free space
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