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Add section to the manual about same directory names

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In fact several hosts may use the same repository to backup directories and
files leading to a greater de-duplication.
Please be aware that when you backup different directories (or the directories
to be saved have a variable name component like a time/date), restic always
needs to read all files and only afterwards can compute which parts of the
files need to be saved. When you backup the same directory again (maybe with
new or changed files) restic will find the old snapshot in the repo and by
default only reads those files that are new or have been modified since the
last snapshot. This is decided based on the modify date of the file in the
file system.
You can exclude folders and files by specifying exclude-patterns.
Either specify them with multiple `--exclude`'s or one `--exclude-file`