borg info

borg [common options] info [options]
optional arguments
  --json format output as JSON

Common options

Archive filters — Archive filters can be applied to repository targets.
  -a GLOB, --glob-archives GLOB only consider archive names matching the glob. sh: rules apply, see “borg help patterns”.
  --sort-by KEYS Comma-separated list of sorting keys; valid keys are: timestamp, name, id; default is: timestamp
  --first N consider first N archives after other filters were applied
  --last N consider last N archives after other filters were applied

Description

This command displays 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.

Borg archives can only contain a limited amount of file metadata. The size of an archive relative to this limit depends on a number of factors, mainly the number of files, the lengths of paths and other metadata stored for files. This is shown as utilization of maximum supported archive size.

Examples

$ borg info Tuesday2022-06-25T20:51:39
Archive name: Tuesday2022-06-25T20:51:39
Archive fingerprint: f7dea0788dfc026cc2be1c0f5b94beb4e4084eb3402fc40c38d8719b1bf2d943
Comment:
Hostname: mba2020
Username: tw
Time (start): Sat, 2022-06-25 20:51:40
Time (end): Sat, 2022-06-25 20:51:40
Duration: 0.03 seconds
Command line: /Users/tw/w/borg-env/bin/borg -r path/to/repo create --stats 'Tuesday{now}' src --progress
Utilization of maximum supported archive size: 0%
Number of files: 244
Original size: 13.80 MB
Deduplicated size: 531 B