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@@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ For restoring, you usually want to work **on the same machine as the same user**
 that was also used to create the backups of the wanted files. Doing it like
 that avoids quite some issues:
 
-- no confusion relating to pathes
+- no confusion relating to paths
 - same mapping of user/group names to user/group IDs
 - no permission issues
 - you likely already have a working borg setup there,