diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/pull-5319 b/changelog/unreleased/pull-5319
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ae1e5fdf1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/unreleased/pull-5319
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+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 blobs to copy, their size on disk and the number of packfiles
+used from the source repository. The additional statistics is only produced when
+the `--verbose` option is specified.
+
+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 096ce76c6..498d6f75d 100644
--- a/cmd/restic/cmd_copy.go
+++ b/cmd/restic/cmd_copy.go
@@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ func copyTree(ctx context.Context, srcRepo restic.Repository, dstRepo restic.Rep
 		return err
 	}
 
+	copyStats(srcRepo, copyBlobs, packList, printer)
 	bar := printer.NewCounter("packs copied")
 	err = repository.Repack(ctx, srcRepo, dstRepo, packList, copyBlobs, bar, printer.P)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -249,3 +250,21 @@ 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)
+	for blob := range copyBlobs {
+		for _, blob := range srcRepo.LookupBlob(blob.Type, blob.ID) {
+			countBlobs++
+			sizeBlobs += uint64(blob.Length)
+			break
+		}
+	}
+
+	printer.V("  copy %d blobs with disk size %s in %d packfiles\n",
+		countBlobs, ui.FormatBytes(uint64(sizeBlobs)), len(packList))
+}