diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/issue-4678 b/changelog/unreleased/issue-4678
index f98711ea4..9f9a213e1 100644
--- a/changelog/unreleased/issue-4678
+++ b/changelog/unreleased/issue-4678
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ Restic `dump` always printed to the standard output. It now permits to select a
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4678
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4682
+https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4692
diff --git a/cmd/restic/cmd_dump.go b/cmd/restic/cmd_dump.go
index 1628d6a95..9178f2abe 100644
--- a/cmd/restic/cmd_dump.go
+++ b/cmd/restic/cmd_dump.go
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ func runDump(ctx context.Context, opts DumpOptions, gopts GlobalOptions, args []
 	canWriteArchiveFunc := checkStdoutArchive
 
 	if opts.Target != "" {
-		file, err := os.OpenFile(opts.Target, os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREATE|os.O_EXCL, 0o666)
+		file, err := os.Create(opts.Target)
 		if err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("cannot dump to file: %w", err)
 		}
diff --git a/doc/050_restore.rst b/doc/050_restore.rst
index 3cd05500b..916b11c86 100644
--- a/doc/050_restore.rst
+++ b/doc/050_restore.rst
@@ -176,8 +176,7 @@ To include the folder content at the root of the archive, you can use the ``<sna
     $ restic -r /srv/restic-repo dump latest:/home/other/work / > restore.tar
 
 It is also possible to ``dump`` the contents of a selected snapshot and folder
-structure to a file using the ``--target`` flag. The ``dump`` command will fail
-if the already file exists.
+structure to a file using the ``--target`` flag.
 
 .. code-block:: console
     $ restic -r /srv/restic-repo dump latest / --target /home/linux.user/output.tar -a tar
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