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				|  |  |  ## Preparation and cleanup hooks
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				|  |  | -If you find yourself performing preparation tasks before your backup runs, or
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				|  |  | -cleanup work afterwards, borgmatic hooks may be of interest. Hooks are shell
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				|  |  | -commands that borgmatic executes for you at various points as it runs, and
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				|  |  | -they're configured in the `hooks` section of your configuration file. But if
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				|  |  | -you're looking to backup a database, it's probably easier to use the [database
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				|  |  | -backup
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				|  |  | +If you find yourself performing preparation tasks before your backup runs or
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				|  |  | +cleanup work afterwards, borgmatic command hooks may be of interest. These are
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				|  |  | +custom shell commands you can configure borgmatic to execute at various points
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				|  |  | +as it runs.
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				|  |  | +But if you're looking to backup a database, it's probably easier to use the
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				|  |  | +[database backup
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				|  |  |  feature](https://torsion.org/borgmatic/docs/how-to/backup-your-databases/)
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				|  |  |  instead.
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