Why pull a single file from a Borg archive?
When a configuration file or a database dump is corrupted, you often need only that one file, not the whole archive. Extracting the entire archive just to get a single file wastes bandwidth, CPU, and disk space—especially when the archive lives on a remote server or in a cloud bucket.
Because Borg keeps the archive compressed and deduplicated, the cost of pulling a single file is proportional to the file’s size and the number of blocks it occupies. Below is a quick walk‑through for retrieving a single file efficiently, both locally and remotely, and piping the data through other tools for immediate processing or secure transfer.
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