[Borgbackup] Determining size of archive

[Thomas Waldmann]

On 11/12/20 4:47 AM, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> I need to determine how effective the duplication compression will be on 
> a particular data set. According to documentation a dry-run doesn't for 
> the duplication or compression. What's the best way to check its 
> effectiveness?

By running a real backup with --stats (and maybe also --list).

As already mentioned, you could try to make a representative subset if 
your dataset is too large for experiments.

Note: if --dry-run were extended to do all what is needed to compute 
dedup statistics, it would be rather expensive already.

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