diff --git a/src/borg/archive.py b/src/borg/archive.py
index 44b92c04c..b87fa35af 100644
--- a/src/borg/archive.py
+++ b/src/borg/archive.py
@@ -2131,7 +2131,14 @@ class ArchiveRecreater:
         target = self.create_target(archive, target_name)
         if self.exclude_if_present or self.exclude_caches:
             self.matcher_add_tagged_dirs(archive)
-        if self.matcher.empty() and not self.recompress and not target.recreate_rechunkify and comment is None:
+        if (
+            self.matcher.empty()
+            and not self.recompress
+            and not target.recreate_rechunkify
+            and comment is None
+            and target_name is None
+        ):
+            # nothing to do
             return False
         self.process_items(archive, target)
         replace_original = target_name is None