[Borgbackup] question about deduplicated size stats

[Marian Beermann]

On 13.09.2017 17:21, Maurice Libes wrote:
> 
> 
> Le 13/09/2017 à 15:26, Chris Downing a écrit :
>> 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?"
> sorry, I dont know if this was I wanted to say :-)
> 
> I just wanted to see somewhere in the stats (elsewhere than in the log
> file) the informations of the
> deduplicated size that "/borg create"/ displays after an archive backup;
> 
> i.e the volume of new fragments found at time "t" for one particular
> archive at the moment where it is done
> 
> 
> but I am sensible to this argument of john:
> />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.
> 
> /what is confusing for me is that , it is the same name deduplicated
> size, but not computed in the same manner
> between "borg create" and "borg info/"
>

It is computed in the same manner, but at different states of the
system, yielding different results.