What is restic restore even doing?

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Hi,
so I tried with the latest version to restore a backup. I am trying to restore from B2 and the total bucket size is 149.1 GB. Restic restore downloaded 189 GB so far and it still isn’t finished. What is going on? (Also I would love some sign of progression during it the restore. Even with --verbose nothing is really shown on the console.)

My used restore command was restic -r b2:Calibre-Backup2: --verbose --password-file G:/PW restore latest --target G:\Calibre\

Edit: It finally stopped at 205 GB. Still quite a bit more than necessary?

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If you have ~40GB of duplicate data then this would explain the discrepancy, since file contents (even within the same snapshot) are deduplicated.