Document wording tweaks (#479).
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Under the hood, borgmatic accomplishes this by substituting globs for certain
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ephemeral data placeholders in your `archive_name_format`—and using the result
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to filter archives for supported actions.
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to filter archives when running supported actions.
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For instance, let's say that you have this in your configuration:
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archive_name_format: {hostname}-user-data-{now}
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```
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borgmatic considers `{now}` an emphemeral placeholder that will probably
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borgmatic considers `{now}` an emphemeral data placeholder that will probably
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change per archive, while `{hostname}` won't. So it turns the example value
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into `{hostname}-user-data-*` and applies it to filter down the set of
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archives used for actions like `rlist`, `info`, `prune`, `check`, etc.
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`compact` that operate on an entire repository.
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<span class="minilink minilink-addedin">Prior to 1.7.11</span> The way to
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limit the archives used was a `prefix` option in the `retention` section for
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matching against the start of archive names used for a `prune` action and
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a separate `prefix` option in the `consistency` section for matching against
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the start of archive names used for a `check` action. Both of these options
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are deprecated in favor of the auto-matching behavior in newer versions of
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borgmatic mentioned above.
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limit the archives used for the `prune` action was a `prefix` option in the
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`retention` section for matching against the start of archive names. And the
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option for limiting the archives used for the `check` action was a separate
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`prefix` in the `consistency` section. Both of these options are deprecated in
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favor of the auto-matching behavior in newer versions of borgmatic.
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## Configuration includes
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