diff --git a/src/borg/archiver/rlist_cmd.py b/src/borg/archiver/rlist_cmd.py
index 0001f5ddb..895d426a1 100644
--- a/src/borg/archiver/rlist_cmd.py
+++ b/src/borg/archiver/rlist_cmd.py
@@ -114,7 +114,6 @@ class RListMixIn:
             help="Format output as JSON. "
             "The form of ``--format`` is ignored, "
             "but keys used in it are added to the JSON output. "
-            "Some keys are always present. Note: JSON can only represent text. "
-            'A "barchive" key is therefore not available.',
+            "Some keys are always present. Note: JSON can only represent text.",
         )
         define_archive_filters_group(subparser)
diff --git a/src/borg/helpers/parseformat.py b/src/borg/helpers/parseformat.py
index 458cbff56..5656bb0e2 100644
--- a/src/borg/helpers/parseformat.py
+++ b/src/borg/helpers/parseformat.py
@@ -616,7 +616,7 @@ class BaseFormatter:
         return (
             "- NEWLINE: OS dependent line separator\n"
             "- NL: alias of NEWLINE\n"
-            "- NUL: NUL character for creating print0 / xargs -0 like output, see barchive and bpath keys below\n"
+            "- NUL: NUL character for creating print0 / xargs -0 like output, see bpath key below\n"
             "- SPACE\n"
             "- TAB\n"
             "- CR\n"
@@ -626,9 +626,8 @@ class BaseFormatter:
 
 class ArchiveFormatter(BaseFormatter):
     KEY_DESCRIPTIONS = {
-        "archive": "archive name interpreted as text (might be missing non-text characters, see barchive)",
+        "archive": "archive name",
         "name": 'alias of "archive"',
-        "barchive": "verbatim archive name, can contain any character except NUL",
         "comment": "archive comment",
         # *start* is the key used by borg-info for this timestamp, this makes the formats more compatible
         "start": "time (start) of creation of the archive",
@@ -640,7 +639,7 @@ class ArchiveFormatter(BaseFormatter):
         "username": "username of user who created this archive",
     }
     KEY_GROUPS = (
-        ("archive", "name", "barchive", "comment", "id"),
+        ("archive", "name", "comment", "id"),
         ("start", "time", "end", "command_line"),
         ("hostname", "username"),
     )
@@ -713,7 +712,6 @@ class ArchiveFormatter(BaseFormatter):
             {
                 "name": remove_surrogates(archive_info.name),
                 "archive": remove_surrogates(archive_info.name),
-                "barchive": archive_info.name,
                 "id": bin_to_hex(archive_info.id),
                 "time": self.format_time(archive_info.ts),
                 "start": self.format_time(archive_info.ts),
diff --git a/src/borg/testsuite/archiver/rlist_cmd.py b/src/borg/testsuite/archiver/rlist_cmd.py
index 3c01733e8..f4ceff626 100644
--- a/src/borg/testsuite/archiver/rlist_cmd.py
+++ b/src/borg/testsuite/archiver/rlist_cmd.py
@@ -35,8 +35,6 @@ class ArchiverTestCase(ArchiverTestCaseBase):
         self.assertEqual(output_1, output_2)
         output_1 = self.cmd(f"--repo={self.repository_location}", "rlist", "--short")
         self.assertEqual(output_1, "test-1\ntest-2\n")
-        output_1 = self.cmd(f"--repo={self.repository_location}", "rlist", "--format", "{barchive}/")
-        self.assertEqual(output_1, "test-1/test-2/")
         output_3 = self.cmd(f"--repo={self.repository_location}", "rlist", "--format", "{name} {comment}{NL}")
         self.assert_in("test-1 comment 1\n", output_3)
         self.assert_in("test-2 comment 2\n", output_3)
diff --git a/src/borg/testsuite/archiver/transfer_cmd.py b/src/borg/testsuite/archiver/transfer_cmd.py
index 202167f1d..acc978101 100644
--- a/src/borg/testsuite/archiver/transfer_cmd.py
+++ b/src/borg/testsuite/archiver/transfer_cmd.py
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ class ArchiverTestCase(ArchiverTestCaseBase):
         for got_archive, expected_archive in zip(got["archives"], expected["archives"]):
             del got_archive["id"]
             del expected_archive["id"]
+            del expected_archive["barchive"]
             # timestamps:
             # borg 1.2 transformed to local time and had microseconds = 0, no tzoffset
             # borg 2 uses an utc timestamp, with microseconds and with tzoffset