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+Bugfix: Make sure that symlinks can be created during recovery
+
+When restoring a symlink, restic reported an error if the target path already existed.
+With this change, the potentially existing target path is first removed before the symlink is recreated.
+
+https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2578
+https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3780