Adding documentation note about pruning happening before archiving.

2026-07-30 05:13:01 +02:00 · 2017-08-26 16:13:41 -07:00
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@@ -183,6 +183,11 @@ If you'd like to see the available command-line arguments, view the help:

    borgmatic --help

+Note that borgmatic prunes archives *before* creating an archive, so as to
+free up space for archiving. This means that when a borgmatic run finishes,
+there may still be prune-able archives. Not to worry, as they will get cleaned
+up at the start of the next run.
+
 ### Verbosity

 By default, the backup will proceed silently except in the case of errors. But