From 2c5b8d690bced58f2a13d7c71e3e15711716f75d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Waldmann Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2016 19:05:07 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] improve borg info --help, explain size infos, fixes #1532 --- borg/archiver.py | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/borg/archiver.py b/borg/archiver.py index 43ec093ad..7605fcd92 100644 --- a/borg/archiver.py +++ b/borg/archiver.py @@ -1344,6 +1344,15 @@ class Archiver: info_epilog = textwrap.dedent(""" This command displays some detailed information about the specified archive. + + Please note that the deduplicated sizes of the individual archives do not add + up to the deduplicated size of the repository ("all archives"), because the two + are meaning different things: + + This archive / deduplicated size = amount of data stored ONLY for this archive + = unique chunks of this archive. + All archives / deduplicated size = amount of data stored in the repo + = all chunks in the repository. """) subparser = subparsers.add_parser('info', parents=[common_parser], description=self.do_info.__doc__,