[Borgbackup] question about deduplicated size stats

Chris Downing chrisdowning250 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 13 09:26:04 EDT 2017


Just jumping in here - not much experience with Borg but I think I
understand the query...

It sounds like what Maurice is after is a way to answer: "If all archives
except this one were not present, what would be the deduplicated size of
this archive?"

If correct, I agree that it would be a useful data point, but have no idea
how complex it would be to generate that information (assuming it doesn't
already exist somewhere).

On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 at 14:09 John McCabe-Dansted <gmatht at gmail.com> wrote:

> After a great reflexion :-)  this is very confusing for my mind (and some
>> friends) because we expected to find
>> the deduplicated size information as returned by the* borg create*
>> command at the time the backup was made
>>
>> that is to say the deduplicated size of one archive at the time it is made
>> which is to my opinion more interesting to see the benefit of
>> deduplication
>>
>
>
> It can be confusing that they differ, but as it stands it reflects how
> much space would be freed if you deleted that one archive.
>
> I think that the easiest way if you want the the original value of the
> "Deduplicated size" is to log the output of borgbackup.
>
> I guess the other statistic that would be of interest is how much space
> would be freed if some set of archives were deleted.
>
>
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