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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2018-01-15T18:20:20Z"
+ content="""
+The problem is that you have the repository in two groups.
+
+The way that `standard` works is that the repository has to be in
+exactly one group and then it will use the preferred content for that
+group. It does not know what to do when there are two groups being
+combined.
+
+Solution for you is to run: 
+
+	git annex wanted . anything
+
+Since backup repositories have a copy of every file, matching anything is
+what you want it to do. Since it's also in the archive group, other archive
+repositories will treat it as an archive too, so once a file reaches your
+combo backup and archive repository, it will be removed from other
+archives.
+
+Of course, you could also OR the preferred content expression for backup
+with the preferred content expression for archive, but that would have the
+same result since "anything OR archive" matches anything.
+
+But we can't just OR the two preferred content expressions for two groups
+in general. Consider the client and archive preferred content expressions:
+
+	(include=* and ((exclude=*/archive/* and exclude=archive/*) or (not (copies=archive:1 or copies=smallarchive:1)))) or approxlackingcopies=1
+
+	(not (copies=archive:1 or copies=smallarchive:1)) or approxlackingcopies=1
+
+These are contradictory when a repository is in both the client and archive
+groups; the client doesn't want anything that's in an archive, but if the
+repository is both a client and an archive, it doesn't want any content
+that it has!
+"""]]