# Which folders/files take up how much space in backup?

**URL:** https://forum.duplicati.com/t/which-folders-files-take-up-how-much-space-in-backup/11075
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**Created:** [November 6, 2020, 4:36pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/which-folders-files-take-up-how-much-space-in-backup/11075 "2020-11-06T16:36:38Z")
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#### Post date: [November 8, 2020, 1:57pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/which-folders-files-take-up-how-much-space-in-backup/11075/6 "2020-11-08T13:57:01Z")

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> [@Airhead](#):
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> Basically, I am looking for an equivalent of the Linux du command to run on my Duplicati backup.

What OS is this, and how complex is backup configuration for source paths, excludes, and filters?  
If setup is simple and you’re on Linux, just run the [du](https://linux.die.net/man/1/du) command to get the largest source file areas. Depending on the files, compression and deduplication (especially exact dupes) may throw this off.

There’s no complete equivalent of typical OS-specific file space tools, but you can study file sizes.  
With added scripting, you can probably get totals as you wish, but [find](https://linux.die.net/man/1/find) command might be simpler.

[Visualize backup data usage](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/visualize-backup-data-usage/6691) is the feature request for a nice graphical view and what to do for now.  
[Backend quota is close to being exceeded](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/backend-quota-is-close-to-being-exceeded/8002) gets into that a bit, but also looks at next step of a purge.

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