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extract: document limitation "needs empty destination", fixes #4598

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Thomas Waldmann 2019-06-10 21:39:35 +02:00
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@ -103,6 +103,11 @@ Are there other known limitations?
:ref:`borg_info` shows how large (relative to the maximum size) existing :ref:`borg_info` shows how large (relative to the maximum size) existing
archives are. archives are.
- borg extract only supports restoring into an empty destination. After that,
the destination will exactly have the contents of the extracted archive.
If you extract into a non-empty destination, borg will (for example) not
remove files which are in the destination, but not in the archive.
See :issue:`4598` for a workaround and more details.
.. _checkpoints_parts: .. _checkpoints_parts: