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  • How many directories? Each directory takes up a certain amount of space.
    – user3463
    Commented Jan 17, 2012 at 2:33
  • I ran find -mindepth 1 -type d | wc -l and found my backup has 1706 total directories.
    – mr_schlomo
    Commented Jan 17, 2012 at 11:48
  • That could take up around 6MB at 4KB per directory, but certainly not 34MB. I'm not sure where the balance is coming from.
    – user3463
    Commented Jan 18, 2012 at 0:10
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    Maybe the directories contain lots of files, so more than 4kb is needed for the directory data?
    – Wyzard
    Commented Mar 29, 2012 at 5:40