diff --git a/borgsynology.sh b/borgsynology.sh
index b1ca4f1..80ab501 100644
--- a/borgsynology.sh
+++ b/borgsynology.sh
@@ -183,10 +183,18 @@ borg_info() {
 # Anzahl der Sicherungen wird in $BORG_PRUNING festgelegt
 borg_prune() {
    echo "Bereinige das Backup-Repository..."
-   $BORG prune -v --list $BORG_PRUNING "$BORG_REPO"
-   echo "Compactiere das Backup-Repository..."
-   # Borg compact command is used to reduce the size of the repository by removing unused data.
-   $BORG compact "$BORG_REPO" 
+	$BORG prune -v --list $BORG_PRUNING "$BORG_REPO"
+
+   BORG_VERSION=$($BORG -V 2>/dev/null | grep -oE '[0-9]+\.[0-9]+')
+   MAJOR=$(echo $BORG_VERSION | cut -d. -f1)
+   MINOR=$(echo $BORG_VERSION | cut -d. -f2)
+   if [ "$MAJOR" -gt 1 ] || ([ "$MAJOR" -eq 1 ] && [ "$MINOR" -ge 2 ]); then
+      echo "Borg $BORG_VERSION: führe compact aus"
+      $BORG compact "$BORG_REPO" 
+   else
+      echo "Borg $BORG_VERSION: compact nicht unterstützt, da älter als 1.2"
+   fi
+
 }
 
 # auflisten von Borg-Sicherungen