I'm using Ubuntu 20.04. So I wanted to back up a folder (minecraft world), installed p7zip (p7zip-full and p7zip-rar) and tried running it. There was no errors, but I notice something strange. Basically the number of files in "Scanning the drive" is way larger (by 87), than the number of "Files read from disk".
7z a novoterskaya-14.11.21.7z Novoterskaya/
7-Zip [64] 16.02 : Copyright (c) 1999-2016 Igor Pavlov : 2016-05-21
p7zip Version 16.02 (locale=en_US.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,64 bits,2 CPUs AMD A6-5400K APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics (610F01),ASM,AES-NI)
Scanning the drive:
20 folders, 1093 files, 1989481565 bytes (1898 MiB)
Creating archive: novoterskaya-14.11.21.7z
Items to compress: 1113
Files read from disk: 1006
Archive size: 1040453839 bytes (993 MiB)
Everything is Ok
This is probably not something awful, but I'd like to be sure I'm not losing any files. Also, just out of curiosity, I'm really interested to why it happens.