diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/pull-5319 b/changelog/unreleased/pull-5319
index e4c1f0865..a512c3613 100644
--- a/changelog/unreleased/pull-5319
+++ b/changelog/unreleased/pull-5319
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Enhancement: add more status counters to `restic copy`
 
 `restic copy` now produces more status counters in text format. The new counters
-are the number of tree/data blobs, their sizes and the number of packfiles
-they are attachedc to.
+are the number of blobs to copy, their size on disk and the number of packfiles
+used from the source repository.
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/5175
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/5319
diff --git a/cmd/restic/cmd_copy.go b/cmd/restic/cmd_copy.go
index 2281e9d05..498d6f75d 100644
--- a/cmd/restic/cmd_copy.go
+++ b/cmd/restic/cmd_copy.go
@@ -251,7 +251,9 @@ func copyTree(ctx context.Context, srcRepo restic.Repository, dstRepo restic.Rep
 	return nil
 }
 
+// copyStats: print statistics for the blobs to be copied
 func copyStats(srcRepo restic.Repository, copyBlobs restic.BlobSet, packList restic.IDSet, printer progress.Printer) {
+
 	// count and size
 	countBlobs := 0
 	sizeBlobs := uint64(0)
@@ -259,10 +261,10 @@ func copyStats(srcRepo restic.Repository, copyBlobs restic.BlobSet, packList res
 		for _, blob := range srcRepo.LookupBlob(blob.Type, blob.ID) {
 			countBlobs++
 			sizeBlobs += uint64(blob.Length)
+			break
 		}
-		break
 	}
 
-	printer.V("  %7d all  blobs with a size %11s in %7d packfiles\n",
+	printer.V("  copy %d blobs with disk size %s in %d packfiles\n",
 		countBlobs, ui.FormatBytes(uint64(sizeBlobs)), len(packList))
 }