diff --git a/qubes-rpc/qfile-agent.c b/qubes-rpc/qfile-agent.c
index e759ecfc..c4d789e5 100644
--- a/qubes-rpc/qfile-agent.c
+++ b/qubes-rpc/qfile-agent.c
@@ -21,16 +21,17 @@ enum {
 
 void do_notify_progress(long long cur_total, int flag)
 {
-    const char *du_size_env = getenv("FILECOPY_TOTAL_SIZE");
+    const char *total_bytes_env = getenv("FILECOPY_TOTAL_BYTES");
     const char *progress_type_env = getenv("PROGRESS_TYPE");
     const char *saved_stdout_env = getenv("SAVED_FD_1");
     int ignore;
     if (!progress_type_env)
         return;
-    if (!strcmp(progress_type_env, "console") && du_size_env) {
+    if (!strcmp(progress_type_env, "console") && total_bytes_env) {
         char msg[256];
         snprintf(msg, sizeof(msg), "sent %lld/%lld KB\r",
-             (cur_total + 1023) / 1024, strtoull(du_size_env, NULL, 10));
+                 (cur_total + 1023) / 1024,
+                 (strtoull(total_bytes_env, NULL, 10) + 1023) / 1024);
         ignore = write(2, msg, strlen(msg));
         if (flag == PROGRESS_FLAG_DONE)
             ignore = write(2, "\n", 1);
diff --git a/qubes-rpc/qvm-copy b/qubes-rpc/qvm-copy
index 57987d12..20a0992e 100755
--- a/qubes-rpc/qvm-copy
+++ b/qubes-rpc/qvm-copy
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 set -e -o pipefail
 
-unset PROGRESS_TYPE OPERATION_TYPE TARGET_TYPE MIN_ARGS FILECOPY_TOTAL_SIZE service scriptdir
+unset PROGRESS_TYPE OPERATION_TYPE TARGET_TYPE MIN_ARGS FILECOPY_TOTAL_BYTES service scriptdir
 
 # Determine the operation to be performed
 case ${0##*/} in
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ else
   VM="@default"
 fi
 
-if FILECOPY_TOTAL_SIZE=$("$scriptdir/qubes/qubes-fs-tree-check" \
+if FILECOPY_TOTAL_BYTES=$("$scriptdir/qubes/qubes-fs-tree-check" \
     --allow-symlinks --allow-directories --machine -- "$@"); then
     service=qubes.Filecopy
 else
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ else
     if [[ "$status" -ne 2 ]]; then exit "$status"; fi
     service=qubes.Filecopy+allow-all-names
 fi
-if [[ "$PROGRESS_TYPE" = 'console' ]]; then export FILECOPY_TOTAL_SIZE; fi
+if [[ "$PROGRESS_TYPE" = 'console' ]]; then export FILECOPY_TOTAL_BYTES; fi
 
 "$scriptdir/qubes/qrexec-client-vm" --filter-escape-chars-stderr -- "$VM" \
     "$service" "$scriptdir/qubes/qfile-agent" "$@"