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manual: Add info on special items (device files)

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If there is a **bind-mount** below a directory that is to be saved, restic descends into it. 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 Reading data from stdin
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