Understanding storage use in Joplin: a few different numbers

[dpoulton]

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Is the JEX tar compressed?

JEX is a tar file but tarballs are not compressed archives. Could the smaller size be because the JEX file does not contain historic note versions and their associated resources (if they are not also being used by current notes)?

Export / Import is not a backup

Note history is included in sync, but not export. Exported notes are essentially a copy of the notes, so they start with a new history. If you need to preserve history in your backup, you need to backup the sync directory.