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 ## No automatic backup expiration
 
-An option to diable the default behaviour to purge old backups when out of space. This option is set with the `--no-auto-expire` flag.
+An option to disable the default behaviour to purge old backups when out of space. This option is set with the `--no-auto-expire` flag.
 	
 	
 ## How to restore