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Doc add info on special items
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Alexander Neumann 2017-09-23 14:07:20 +02:00
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$ restic -r /tmp/backup backup --files-from /tmp/files_to_backup /tmp/some_additional_file
Backing up special items
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
**Symlinks** are archieved as symlinks, ``restic``does not follow them.
When you restore, you get the same symlink again, with the same link target
and the same timestamps.
If there is a **bind-mount** below a directory that is to be saved, restic descends into it.
**Device files** are saved and restored as device files. This means that e.g. ``/dev/sda`` is
archived as a block device file and restored as such. This also means that the content of the
corresponding disk is not read, at least not from the device file.
Reading data from stdin
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~