borg extract /backup/repo::myhost-2026-08-09T12:00:00 home/user/file.txt
Restore a single file from an archive
Extracts only the paths given, here home/user/file.txt, relative to the archive root and without a leading slash. Multiple paths can follow the archive name. The file lands in the current directory under its original path.
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