[Borgbackup] question about deduplicated size stats

Marian Beermann public at enkore.de
Wed Sep 13 10:02:01 EDT 2017


On 13.09.2017 15:46, Thomas Waldmann wrote:
>> 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 there is no other archive, there is only inner deduplication, but no
> historical inter-archive dedup.
> 
> But borg does not compute a separate value for (only) the inner
> deduplication inside an archive.

This value would still differ from what "borg create" had shown.

I suppose it could store that number in the archive metadata, but it of
course breaks down with recreate etc.


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