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+Enhancement: Restore files with many zeros as sparse files
+
+On all platforms except Windows, the restorer may now write files containing
+long runs of zeros as sparse files (also called files with holes): the zeros
+are not actually written to disk.
+
+How much space is saved by writing sparse files depends on the operating
+system, file system and the distribution of zeros in the file.
+
+https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/79
+https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2601
+https://forum.restic.net/t/sparse-file-support/1264