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