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add clarification about append-only mode, fixes borgbackup#1689
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ThomasWaldmann committed Oct 18, 2016
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Drawbacks
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As data is only appended, and nothing deleted, commands like ``prune`` or ``delete``
As data is only appended, and nothing removed, commands like ``prune`` or ``delete``
won't free disk space, they merely tag data as deleted in a new transaction.

Be aware that as soon as you write to the repo in non-append-only mode (e.g. prune,
delete or add archives from a admin machine), it will remove the deleted objects
including the ones that were already marked as deleted, but not removed, in append-only
mode.

Note that you can go back-and-forth between normal and append-only operation by editing
the configuration file, it's not a "one way trip".

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