[Borgbackup] delete and prune use consume gigs of data

[Jim Popovitch]

On Sat, 2023-05-13 at 14:25 -0400, Jim Popovitch via Borgbackup wrote:
> Why does delete and prune seem to consume as much (or more) data as a
> create does, especially when the prune is done from a different location
> than where the create is initiated?  I tried to delete some old server
> backups, using a session+key on my laptop, and the stats say my laptop
> xfer'ed in and out 1Mbs for 3 hours (that's a lot of transferred data
> for a delete).
> 

Further insight reveals a new 1.5G .cache/borg folder. So I guess the
delete needed to build a cache in order to know what to delete since the
backups are encrypted?

-Jim P.