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Add quickstart introduction to repositories & archives (fixes #3620) 1.1-maint port
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Archives and repositories
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A *Borg archive* is the result of a single backup (``borg create``). An archive
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stores a snapshot of the data of the files "inside" it. One can later extract or
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mount an archive to restore from a backup.
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*Repositories* are filesystem directories acting as self-contained stores of archives.
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Repositories can be accessed locally via path or remotely via ssh. Under the hood,
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repositories contain data blocks and a manifest tracking which blocks are in each
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archive. If some data hasn't changed from one backup to another, Borg can simply
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reference an already uploaded data chunk (deduplication).
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Important note about free space
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Important note about free space
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