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				|  |  |  When the worst happens—or you want to test your backups—the first step is
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				|  |  |  to figure out which archive to restore. A good way to do that is to use the
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				|  |  | -`--list` action:
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				|  |  | +`list` action:
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				|  |  |  ```bash
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				|  |  | -borgmatic --list
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				|  |  | +borgmatic list
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				|  |  |  ```
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				|  |  |  That should yield output looking something like:
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				|  | @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Assuming that you want to restore the archive with the most up-to-date files
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				|  |  |  and therefore the latest timestamp, run a command like:
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				|  |  |  ```bash
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				|  |  | -borgmatic --extract --archive host-2019-01-02T04:06:07.080910
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				|  |  | +borgmatic extract --archive host-2019-01-02T04:06:07.080910
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				|  |  |  ```
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				|  |  |  The `--archive` value is the name of the archive to restore. This extracts the
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				|  | @@ -33,13 +33,13 @@ in the right place before running the command.
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				|  |  |  ## Repository selection
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				|  |  |  If you have a single repository in your borgmatic configuration file(s), no
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				|  |  | -problem: the `--extract` action figures out which repository to use.
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				|  |  | +problem: the `extract` action figures out which repository to use.
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				|  |  |  But if you have multiple repositories configured, then you'll need to specify
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				|  |  |  the repository path containing the archive to extract. Here's an example:
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				|  |  |  ```bash
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				|  |  | -borgmatic --extract --repository repo.borg --archive host-2019-...
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				|  |  | +borgmatic extract --repository repo.borg --archive host-2019-...
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				|  |  |  ```
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				|  |  |  ## Restore particular files
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				|  | @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ everything from an archive. To do that, tack on one or more `--restore-path`
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				|  |  |  values. For instance:
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				|  |  |  ```bash
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				|  |  | -borgmatic --extract --archive host-2019-... --restore-path /path/1 /path/2
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				|  |  | +borgmatic extract --archive host-2019-... --restore-path /path/1 /path/2
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				|  |  |  ```
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				|  |  |  Like a whole-archive restore, this also restores into the current directory.
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