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Are you serious? It actually does that? So you have a usb stick with the live environment, then you boot into that environment, then from there you install borg, plug in the other stick that has the back then just restore onto the internal drive and restart? Is that correct?
As long as you don't reboot, your live sessions act like a fully installed OS. At least with any of the LiveUSB sessions I've ever used over the last decade.
You can install, mount a backup image, then push it on to a mountpoint for your actual install to be restored.
Nice. Thank you
Technically you are able to to do with any live environment and backup data, so the answer would be "yes".