diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/pull-4503 b/changelog/unreleased/pull-4503
index 3ce5c48e8..b52552d69 100644
--- a/changelog/unreleased/pull-4503
+++ b/changelog/unreleased/pull-4503
@@ -4,4 +4,5 @@ If files on different devices had the same inode id, then the `stats` command
 did not correctly calculate the snapshot size. This has been fixed.
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4503
+https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4006
 https://forum.restic.net/t/possible-bug-in-stats/6461/8
diff --git a/cmd/restic/cmd_stats.go b/cmd/restic/cmd_stats.go
index d3078a419..b84620bab 100644
--- a/cmd/restic/cmd_stats.go
+++ b/cmd/restic/cmd_stats.go
@@ -270,11 +270,14 @@ func statsWalkTree(repo restic.Loader, opts StatsOptions, stats *statsContainer,
 			// will still be restored
 			stats.TotalFileCount++
 
-			// if inodes are present, only count each inode once
-			// (hard links do not increase restore size)
-			if !hardLinkIndex.Has(node.Inode, node.DeviceID) || node.Inode == 0 {
-				hardLinkIndex.Add(node.Inode, node.DeviceID, struct{}{})
+			if node.Links == 1 || node.Type == "dir" {
 				stats.TotalSize += node.Size
+			} else {
+				// if hardlinks are present only count each deviceID+inode once
+				if !hardLinkIndex.Has(node.Inode, node.DeviceID) || node.Inode == 0 {
+					hardLinkIndex.Add(node.Inode, node.DeviceID, struct{}{})
+					stats.TotalSize += node.Size
+				}
 			}
 		}