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doc: clarify repository setup for copy

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@@ -224,6 +224,11 @@ example from a local to a remote repository, you can use the ``copy`` command:
The example command copies all snapshots from the source repository
``/srv/restic-repo`` to the destination repository ``/srv/restic-repo-copy``.
The destination repository must already exist; when creating it for the first
time, use ``init --from-repo`` with ``--copy-chunker-params`` as described in
:ref:`copy-deduplication` below so that deduplication works across both
repositories.
Snapshots which have previously been copied between repositories will
be skipped by later copy runs. Information about skipped snapshots is only
printed when ``--verbose`` is passed to the command. For efficiency reasons,
@@ -281,6 +286,8 @@ which case only these instead of all snapshots will be copied:
$ restic -r /srv/restic-repo-copy copy --from-repo /srv/restic-repo 410b18a2 4e5d5487 latest
.. _copy-deduplication:
Ensuring deduplication for copied snapshots
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