[Borgbackup] Question regarding "Size" versus actual filesize

Thomas Waldmann tw at waldmann-edv.de
Sun Apr 21 12:45:21 EDT 2024


> My borgbackup (here the vorta display) shows (after recalculation) 
> /_sizes_/in the GB range, which do not correspond to the actual used 
> file size on disk (which is about ~440 GB).
> 
> Is there any explanation somewhere in the borg-documentation of what the 
> Größe/Size means - if there is no correspondence to the used disk space?
> I am puzzled....

Did you maybe forget to add the "borg compact" call, which is required 
to actually free space since borg 1.2?

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