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Clarify documentation about restoring a database: borgmatic does not create the database upon restore.

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Dan Helfman 2024-02-09 15:35:29 -08:00
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## Database restoration
When you want to replace an existing database with its backed-up contents, you
can restore it with borgmatic. Note that the database must already exist;
borgmatic does not currently create a database upon restore.
To restore a database dump from an archive, use the `borgmatic restore`
action. But the first step is to figure out which archive to restore from. A
good way to do that is to use the `rlist` action: