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Added FAQ section about backing up root partition 

Using borgbackup to backup the root partition works fine, just
remember to exclude non-essential directories.

Signed-off-by: Fredrik Mikker <fredrik@mikker.se>
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@ -353,6 +353,10 @@ How can I restore huge file(s) over a unstable connection?
If you can not manage to extract the whole big file in one go, you can extract
all the part files (see above) and manually concatenate them together.
Can i backup my root partition (/) with borg?
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Backing up your entire root partition works just fine, but remember to exclude directories that make no sense to backup, such as /dev, /proc, /sys, /tmp and /run.
If it crashes with a UnicodeError, what can I do?
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