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Mention "before_actions" command hook in soft failure documentation (#631).

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@ -68,6 +68,9 @@ borgmatic. borgmatic logs the soft failure, skips all further actions in that
configurable file, and proceeds onward to any other borgmatic configuration
files you may have.
Note that `before_backup` only runs on the `create` action. See below about
optionally using `before_actions` instead.
You can imagine a similar check for the sometimes-online server case:
```yaml
@ -93,6 +96,12 @@ hooks:
(Writing the battery script is left as an exercise to the reader.)
<span class="minilink minilink-addedin">New in version 1.7.0</span> The
`before_actions` and `after_actions` hooks run before/after all the actions
(like `create`, `prune`, etc.) for each repository. So if you'd like your soft
failure command hook to run regardless of action, consider using
`before_actions` instead of `before_backup`.
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