diff --git a/dashboard/src/components/app/Backups.vue b/dashboard/src/components/app/Backups.vue
index e324b20d0..841e367ac 100644
--- a/dashboard/src/components/app/Backups.vue
+++ b/dashboard/src/components/app/Backups.vue
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ const t = i18n.t;
 
 import { ref, onMounted, useTemplateRef } from 'vue';
 import { Icon, Button, Switch, Checkbox, FormGroup, TextInput, TableView, Menu, Dialog, ProgressBar } from '@cloudron/pankow';
-import { prettyLongDate } from '@cloudron/pankow/utils';
+import { prettyLongDate, prettyFileSize } from '@cloudron/pankow/utils';
 import { API_ORIGIN, RSTATES } from '../../constants.js';
 import { download } from '../../utils.js';
 import AppImportDialog from '../AppImportDialog.vue';
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ const columns = ref({
     label: t('backup.target.label'),
     sort: true,
   },
+  size: {
+    label: t('backup.target.size'),
+    sort: true,
+  },
   creationTime: {
     label: t('app.backups.backups.time'),
     sort: true,
@@ -408,7 +412,10 @@ onMounted(async () => {
         {{ prettyLongDate(backup.creationTime) }} <b v-show="backup.label">({{ backup.label }})</b>
       </template>
       <template #site="backup">
-        {{ backup.site ? backup.site.name : 'unknown' }}
+        {{ backup.site.name }}
+      </template>
+      <template #size="backup">
+        <span v-if="backup.stats">{{ prettyFileSize(backup.stats.size) }} - {{ backup.stats.fileCount }} file(s)</span>
       </template>
       <template #actions="backup">
         <div style="text-align: right;">
diff --git a/dashboard/src/views/BackupListView.vue b/dashboard/src/views/BackupListView.vue
index a0edcfe54..37659c62f 100644
--- a/dashboard/src/views/BackupListView.vue
+++ b/dashboard/src/views/BackupListView.vue
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ const t = i18n.t;
 
 import { ref, onMounted, useTemplateRef } from 'vue';
 import { Button, ClipboardAction, Menu, FormGroup, TextInput, Checkbox, TableView, Dialog } from '@cloudron/pankow';
-import { prettyLongDate, prettyFileSize } from '@cloudron/pankow/utils';
+import { prettyLongDate } from '@cloudron/pankow/utils';
 import { TASK_TYPES } from '../constants.js';
 import Section from  '../components/Section.vue';
 import BackupsModel from '../models/BackupsModel.js';
@@ -374,7 +374,6 @@ onMounted(async () => {
         <template #content="backup">
           <span v-if="backup.contents.length">{{ $t('backups.listing.appCount', { appCount: backup.contents.length }) }}</span>
           <span v-else>{{ $t('backups.listing.noApps') }}</span>
-          <span v-if="backup.stats"> ({{ backup.stats.fileCount }} files<span v-if="backup.stats.size"> - {{ prettyFileSize(backup.stats.size) }}</span>)</span>
         </template>
 
         <template #site="backup">{{ backup.site.name }}</template>
diff --git a/src/backupformat/rsync.js b/src/backupformat/rsync.js
index f1a6438ed..bac8525dd 100644
--- a/src/backupformat/rsync.js
+++ b/src/backupformat/rsync.js
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ async function addFile(sourceFile, encryption, uploader, progressCallback) {
     const [openError, sourceHandle] = await safe(fs.promises.open(sourceFile, 'r'));
     if (openError) {
         debug(`addFile: ignoring disappeared file: ${sourceFile}`);
-        return;
+        return null;
     }
 
     const sourceStream = sourceHandle.createReadStream(sourceFile, { autoClose: true });
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ async function addFile(sourceFile, encryption, uploader, progressCallback) {
     // debug(`addFile: pipeline finished: ${JSON.stringify(ps.stats())}`);
 
     await uploader.finish();
+
     return {
         stats: ps.stats(),
         integrity: { size: ps.stats().transferred, sha256: hash.digest('hex') }
@@ -84,11 +85,12 @@ async function sync(backupSite, remotePath, dataLayout, progressCallback) {
     // the number here has to take into account the s3.upload partSize (which is 10MB). So 20=200MB
     const concurrency = backupSite.limits?.syncConcurrency || (backupSite.provider === 's3' ? 20 : 10);
     const cacheFile = path.join(paths.BACKUP_INFO_DIR, backupSite.id, `${dataLayout.getBasename()}.sync.cache`);
-    const { delQueue, addQueue, integrityMap } = await syncer.sync(dataLayout, cacheFile);
+    const { delQueue, addQueue, integrityMap } = await syncer.sync(dataLayout, cacheFile); // integrityMap is unchanged files
     debug(`sync: processing ${delQueue.length} deletes and ${addQueue.length} additions`);
     const aggregatedStats = {
+        transferred: 0,
         size: [...integrityMap.values()].reduce((sum, { size }) => sum + size, 0),
-        fileCount: integrityMap.size + addQueue.length,
+        fileCount: addQueue.length + integrityMap.size, // final file count, not the transferred file count
         startTime: Date.now(),
         totalMsecs: 0
     };
@@ -111,9 +113,11 @@ async function sync(backupSite, remotePath, dataLayout, progressCallback) {
                 debug(`Adding ${change.path} position ${change.position} try ${retryCount}`);
 
                 const uploader = await backupSites.storageApi(backupSite).upload(backupSite.config, fullPath);
-                const { integrity } = await addFile(dataLayout.toLocalPath('./' + change.path), backupSite.encryption, uploader, progressCallback);
-                integrityMap.set(destPath, integrity);
-                aggregatedStats.size += integrity.size;
+                const result = await addFile(dataLayout.toLocalPath('./' + change.path), backupSite.encryption, uploader, progressCallback);
+                if (!result) return; // this can happen if the file disappeared on us
+                integrityMap.set(destPath, result.integrity);
+                aggregatedStats.transferred += result.stats.transferred;
+                aggregatedStats.size += result.stats.transferred;
             });
         }
     }
diff --git a/src/backupformat/tgz.js b/src/backupformat/tgz.js
index 252ca881c..6ac5becde 100644
--- a/src/backupformat/tgz.js
+++ b/src/backupformat/tgz.js
@@ -169,12 +169,14 @@ async function tarPack(dataLayout, encryption, uploader, progressCallback) {
 
     const [error] = await pipeline; // already wrapped in safe()
     if (error) throw new BoxError(BoxError.EXTERNAL_ERROR, `tarPack pipeline error: ${error.message}`);
-    debug(`tarPack: pipeline finished: ${JSON.stringify(ps.stats())}`);
+
+    const stats = ps.stats();
+    debug(`tarPack: pipeline finished: ${JSON.stringify(stats)}`);
 
     await uploader.finish();
     return {
-        stats: { fileCount, ...ps.stats() },
-        integrity: { size: ps.stats().transferred, fileCount, sha256: hash.digest('hex') }
+        stats: { fileCount, size: stats.transferred, ...stats },
+        integrity: { size: stats.transferred, fileCount, sha256: hash.digest('hex') }
     };
 }
 
diff --git a/src/backuptask.js b/src/backuptask.js
index c0005d13b..e07102724 100644
--- a/src/backuptask.js
+++ b/src/backuptask.js
@@ -99,6 +99,10 @@ async function upload(remotePath, siteId, dataLayoutString, progressCallback) {
 
     await checkPreconditions(backupSite, dataLayout);
 
+    // integrity - { signature } of the uploaded .backupinfo .
+    // .backupinfo contains an integrityMap { size, fileCount, sha256 } of each file. for tgz, fileCount has the file count inside
+    // stats - { fileCount, size, startTime, totalMsecs, transferred } . size is the backup size .transferred is what was transferred. they differ for rsync
+    // fileCount and size in stats should match up .backupinfo
     const { stats, integrityMap } = await backupFormats.api(backupSite.format).upload(backupSite, remotePath, dataLayout, progressCallback);
 
     progressCallback({ message: `Uploading integrity information to ${remotePath}.backupinfo` });