From ff785924de95a07c800180f692c9e5d948431935 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Clemens Bergmann Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 12:41:48 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify live status display When I backup one of my filesystems which has a lot of Hard Links (Backup directory of burp) the live status shows me 4.5 TB but it only takes up 1.2 TB of space in the repository. This is confusing because my repo is on S3 and I feared a huge Bill. This change should clarify this. --- doc/040_backup.rst | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/040_backup.rst b/doc/040_backup.rst index 637e42e2b..ec3e957b7 100644 --- a/doc/040_backup.rst +++ b/doc/040_backup.rst @@ -40,8 +40,7 @@ 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 (but -you'll still get a nice live status display). +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. 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