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doc: Add explanation for "processed" vs "added"

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processed 1.720 GiB in 0:12
Files: 5307 new, 0 changed, 0 unmodified
Dirs: 1867 new, 0 changed, 0 unmodified
Added: 1.700 GiB
Added: 1.200 GiB
snapshot 40dc1520 saved
As you can see, restic created a backup of the directory and was pretty
fast! The specific snapshot just created is identified by a sequence of
hexadecimal characters, ``40dc1520`` in this case.
If you don't pass the ``--verbose`` option, restic will print less data. You'll still get a nice live status display. Be aware that the live status shows the processed files and not the transferred data. Transferred volume might be lower (due to deduplication) or higher.
You can see that restic tells us it processed 1.720 GiB of data, this is the
size of the files and directories in ``~/work`` on the local file system. It
also tells us that only 1.200 GiB was added to the repository. This means that
some of the data was duplicate and restic was able to efficiently reduce it.
If you don't pass the ``--verbose`` option, restic will print less data. You'll
still get a nice live status display. Be aware that the live status shows the
processed files and not the transferred data. Transferred volume might be lower
(due to de-duplication) or higher.
If you run the command again, restic will create another snapshot of
your data, but this time it's even faster. This is de-duplication at
work!
your data, but this time it's even faster and no new data was added to the
repository (since all data is already there). This is de-duplication at work!
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