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Docs hardlinks master (fwd port)
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@ -26,4 +26,6 @@ and readable after one of the failures mentioned above occurred, run
it should be a move (not a copy) operation, and in case of a directory
it should fail if the destination exists and is not an empty directory,
since this is used for locking.
- Hardlinks are needed for :ref:`borg_upgrade` ``--inplace``
- Hardlinks are needed for :ref:`borg_upgrade` (if ``--inplace`` option is not used).
Also hardlinks are used for more safe and secure file updating (e.g. of the repo
config file), but the code tries to work also if hardlinks are not supported.