[Borgbackup] What do sizes mean when pruning?

Thomas Waldmann tw at waldmann-edv.de
Tue Aug 28 10:22:18 EDT 2018


> *My question is: what is the value of the "original size" information?
> It is for me an indication of how much space I would have needed if
> there was no deduplication but beside that I do not really see the usage
> I can make of it.

Yes, that is it.

It's somehow the space used for:

tar (hypothetical)
tgz (hypothetical)
borg (real)

or

uncompressed / not deduped
compressed / not deduped
compressed and deduped

> is there anything more behind it?*

No.


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