PowerShell • A field for synthetic "real size"

Feature request: the objects returned by GetAllChildrenStorages() should contain a field which tells the real size on disk for each backup file. It would be logical to place it under Stats along with BackupSize and DataSize. For non-synthetic backups the size would be the same as BackupSize. But for synthetic backups, the field would show the size when counting only actual written blocks, not blocks referencing a previous block in xfs/ReFS block cloning. VBR would accumulate this number while writing the file, either in a normal backup session or when moving the file. Since VBR is aware of block cloning and uses it, it must already have the information. The request is for saving this information instead of discarding it. This would cost next to nothing in time and resources, but be very valuable for billing and reporting purposes. Similar requests have been made before (to no avail), but maybe not in a Powershell context.

Statistics: Posted by DanielJ — Mar 12, 2025 8:07 am

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