# borg info

    borg [common options] info [options] [REPOSITORY_OR_ARCHIVE]

positional arguments
| `REPOSITORY_OR_ARCHIVE` | repository or archive to display information about
options
| `--json` | format output as JSON
Common options
Archive filters — Archive filters can be applied to repository targets.
| `-P PREFIX`, `--prefix PREFIX` | only consider archive names starting with this prefix. (deprecated)
| `-a GLOB`, `--glob-archives GLOB` | only consider archive names matching the glob. sh: rules apply (without actually using the sh: prefix), see “borg help patterns”.
| `--sort-by KEYS` | Comma-separated list of sorting keys; valid keys are: timestamp, archive, 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 or repository.

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 mean 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 repository = 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 /path/to/repo::2017-06-29T11:00-srv
    Archive name: 2017-06-29T11:00-srv
    Archive fingerprint: b2f1beac2bd553b34e06358afa45a3c1689320d39163890c5bbbd49125f00fe5
    Comment:
    Hostname: myhostname
    Username: root
    Time (start): Thu, 2017-06-29 11:03:07
    Time (end): Thu, 2017-06-29 11:03:13
    Duration: 5.66 seconds
    Number of files: 17037
    Command line: /usr/sbin/borg create /path/to/repo::2017-06-29T11:00-srv /srv
    Utilization of max. archive size: 0%
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                           Original size      Compressed size    Deduplicated size
    This archive:               12.53 GB             12.49 GB              1.62 kB
    All archives:              121.82 TB            112.41 TB            215.42 GB

                           Unique chunks         Total chunks
    Chunk index:                 1015213            626934122

    $ borg info /path/to/repo --last 1
    Archive name: 2017-06-29T11:00-srv
    Archive fingerprint: b2f1beac2bd553b34e06358afa45a3c1689320d39163890c5bbbd49125f00fe5
    Comment:
    Hostname: myhostname
    Username: root
    Time (start): Thu, 2017-06-29 11:03:07
    Time (end): Thu, 2017-06-29 11:03:13
    Duration: 5.66 seconds
    Number of files: 17037
    Command line: /usr/sbin/borg create /path/to/repo::2017-06-29T11:00-srv /srv
    Utilization of max. archive size: 0%
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                           Original size      Compressed size    Deduplicated size
    This archive:               12.53 GB             12.49 GB              1.62 kB
    All archives:              121.82 TB            112.41 TB            215.42 GB

                           Unique chunks         Total chunks
    Chunk index:                 1015213            626934122

    $ borg info /path/to/repo
    Repository ID: d857ce5788c51272c61535062e89eac4e8ef5a884ffbe976e0af9d8765dedfa5
    Location: /path/to/repo
    Encrypted: Yes (repokey)
    Cache: /root/.cache/borg/d857ce5788c51272c61535062e89eac4e8ef5a884ffbe976e0af9d8765dedfa5
    Security dir: /root/.config/borg/security/d857ce5788c51272c61535062e89eac4e8ef5a884ffbe976e0af9d8765dedfa5
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                           Original size      Compressed size    Deduplicated size
    All archives:              121.82 TB            112.41 TB            215.42 GB

                           Unique chunks         Total chunks
    Chunk index:                 1015213            626934122