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borg-info(1) borg backup tool borg-info(1)

Name

borg-info - Show archive details such as disk space used

SYNOPSIS

borg [common options] info [options] [NAME]

DESCRIPTION

This command displays detailed information about the specified archive.

The original size shown here is the total size of the archive's source data (uncompressed, counting duplicate content per occurrence).

Deduplicated sizes are not shown here (computing them per archive is expensive). For the deduplicated size of a set of archives, use borg analyze; for the repository-wide deduplicated size, use borg compact --stats.

OPTIONS

See borg-common(1) for common options of Borg commands.

arguments

specify the archive name

options

format output as JSON

Archive filters

only consider archives matching all patterns. See "borg help match-archives".
Comma-separated list of sorting keys; valid keys are: timestamp, archive, name, id, tags, host, user; default is: timestamp
consider the first N archives after other filters are applied
consider the last N archives after other filters are applied
consider archives between the oldest archive's timestamp and (oldest + TIMESPAN), e.g., 7d or 12m.
consider archives between the newest archive's timestamp and (newest - TIMESPAN), e.g., 7d or 12m.
consider archives older than (now - TIMESPAN), e.g., 7d or 12m.
consider archives newer than (now - TIMESPAN), e.g., 7d or 12m.

EXAMPLES

$ borg info aid:059743db
Archive name: source-backup
Archive fingerprint: 059743db538840c04ee323673ac579d0b5433f2741c41f9643975df6370474f0
Comment:
Hostname: host
Username: user
Tags:
Time (nominal): Fri, 2026-08-28 12:25:52 +0200
Time (start): Fri, 2026-08-28 12:25:52 +0200
Time (end): Fri, 2026-08-28 12:25:52 +0200
Duration: 0.006 seconds
Command line: /usr/bin/borg -r /path/to/repo create source-backup src
Working Directory: /home/user
Number of files: 3
Original size: 3.00 MB


SEE ALSO

borg-common(1), borg-list(1), borg-diff(1), borg-repo-info(1)

Author

The Borg Collective

2026-09-26