From 1e31f5202f5905355b844b8363fc0a5d46510815 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Niggemann <jn@hz6.de>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 22:36:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] manual: Add info on special items

Add info about handling of symlinks and bind-mounts.

Closes: #1014
---
 doc/manual.rst | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/manual.rst b/doc/manual.rst
index cfbdf3a66..d4877514a 100644
--- a/doc/manual.rst
+++ b/doc/manual.rst
@@ -564,6 +564,16 @@ args:
 
     $ 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.
+
 Reading data from stdin
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~