diff --git a/internal/errors/errors.go b/internal/errors/errors.go
index ca36611eb..96e5b82bb 100644
--- a/internal/errors/errors.go
+++ b/internal/errors/errors.go
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ package errors
 
 import (
 	stderrors "errors"
-	"fmt"
 
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
 )
@@ -36,35 +35,11 @@ func As(err error, tgt interface{}) bool { return stderrors.As(err, tgt) }
 // Is reports whether any error in err's tree matches target.
 func Is(x, y error) bool { return stderrors.Is(x, y) }
 
+func Join(errs ...error) error { return stderrors.Join(errs...) }
+
 // Unwrap returns the result of calling the Unwrap method on err, if err's type contains
 // an Unwrap method returning error. Otherwise, Unwrap returns nil.
 //
 // Unwrap only calls a method of the form "Unwrap() error". In particular Unwrap does not
 // unwrap errors returned by [Join].
 func Unwrap(err error) error { return stderrors.Unwrap(err) }
-
-// CombineErrors combines multiple errors into a single error after filtering out any nil values.
-// If no errors are passed, it returns nil.
-// If one error is passed, it simply returns that same error.
-func CombineErrors(errors ...error) (err error) {
-	var combinedErrorMsg string
-	var multipleErrors bool
-	for _, errVal := range errors {
-		if errVal != nil {
-			if combinedErrorMsg != "" {
-				combinedErrorMsg += "; " // Separate error messages with a delimiter
-				multipleErrors = true
-			} else {
-				// Set the first error
-				err = errVal
-			}
-			combinedErrorMsg += errVal.Error()
-		}
-	}
-	if combinedErrorMsg == "" {
-		return nil // If no errors, return nil
-	} else if !multipleErrors {
-		return err // If only one error, return that first error
-	}
-	return fmt.Errorf("multiple errors occurred: [%s]", combinedErrorMsg)
-}
diff --git a/internal/fs/node.go b/internal/fs/node.go
index a5ca1654a..f6bf18087 100644
--- a/internal/fs/node.go
+++ b/internal/fs/node.go
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ func nodeFillExtra(node *restic.Node, path string, fi os.FileInfo, ignoreXattrLi
 	allowExtended, err := nodeFillGenericAttributes(node, path, &stat)
 	if allowExtended {
 		// Skip processing ExtendedAttributes if allowExtended is false.
-		err = errors.CombineErrors(err, nodeFillExtendedAttributes(node, path, ignoreXattrListError))
+		err = errors.Join(err, nodeFillExtendedAttributes(node, path, ignoreXattrListError))
 	}
 	return err
 }
diff --git a/internal/fs/node_windows.go b/internal/fs/node_windows.go
index 9d46143cc..0c1bf0365 100644
--- a/internal/fs/node_windows.go
+++ b/internal/fs/node_windows.go
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ func nodeRestoreGenericAttributes(node *restic.Node, path string, warn func(msg
 	}
 
 	restic.HandleUnknownGenericAttributesFound(unknownAttribs, warn)
-	return errors.CombineErrors(errs...)
+	return errors.Join(errs...)
 }
 
 // genericAttributesToWindowsAttrs converts the generic attributes map to a WindowsAttributes and also returns a string of unknown attributes that it could not convert.