# Feature request: List all backup sets with their size

**URL:** https://forum.duplicati.com/t/feature-request-list-all-backup-sets-with-their-size/5257
**Category:** Features
**Created:** [November 10, 2018, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/feature-request-list-all-backup-sets-with-their-size/5257 "2018-11-10T19:30:47Z")
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### Author: ![kees-z](https://forum.duplicati.com/user_avatar/forum.duplicati.com/kees-z/32/29_2.png) [@kees-z](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/kees-z)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2018, 12:35pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/feature-request-list-all-backup-sets-with-their-size/5257/6 "2018-11-22T12:35:41Z")

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Not exactly an answer to your question, but maybe this helps:

You can see the increase in storage size between any 2 backup versions with the [`compare` command](https://duplicati.readthedocs.io/en/latest/04-using-duplicati-from-the-command-line/#the-compare-command).

- From the Web UI, click to expand your backup job and click _Commandline_ under “Advanced”.
- Choose the command `compare` in the drop down menu.
- Delete the contents of the “Commandline arguments” text box, replace it with “12”, “5” and “`--full-result`” (each value on a separate line, omit the double quotes).
- Click the button _Run “compare” command now_ at the bottom of the form.

![image](https://forum.duplicati.com/uploads/default/original/2X/0/0c575c578f7001b7d9c842c03f01629beb6b4e65.png)

This will list the difference between backup version 12 and version 5. It also returns the backup size of both versions.  
Option `--full-result` lists all added, modified and deleted files, otherwise only the first 10 files are listed.

The `compare` command can be useful to track down which backup uploaded a lot of data and thus allocated much storage space.  
Note that deleting a backup version that added much data to your remote storage does not mean that all storage space is reclaimed, as explained by @Pectojin.

If you accidentlly backed up one or more large files or folders and want to delete them from every backup set, you can do this using the [`purge` command](https://duplicati.readthedocs.io/en/latest/04-using-duplicati-from-the-command-line/#the-purge-command).  
Don’t forget to delete or move the files to a location outside the selection of your source files, otherwise they will be uploaded again the next time the backup runs.  
Another option is to [exclude](https://duplicati.readthedocs.io/en/latest/06-advanced-options/#exclude) these files from your source files selection.

> [@Duplo](#):
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> I also want to be able to delete specific backup sets. Currently, it is only possible to delete based on age and count.

You can delete a specific backup version using the `--version=n` option. The easiest way to do this, is invoking the Commandline form in the Web UI, just like the `compare` command above.

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