On 02/03/14 21:42, John Pederzolli wrote: > I am not sure I understand the output from --print-stats, I receive the > following: > > Total size Compressed size All archives > 26594559289 26669135002 (unique data) > 26282387060 26397244896 > > My questions is why is compressed size _greater_ than total size for both > 'All archives' and ' (unique data)'?
The "compressed" here really means "what actually gets stored", so it includes a small amount of overhead per block. You presumably have data which can't be compressed at all, in order for this overhead to be noticeable like this. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
