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Report a warning, if only symlinks are being backed up #542

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Yesterday I thought I was backing up a directory...Yesterday I thought I was backing up a directory...let's say, ~/mydoc, and I forgot that ~/mydoc is just a symlink to ~/doc/own

So I was backing up a symlink... It happened for several days in a row so I don't have the backups I expected.

I wish restic had said me something like: "you are backing up a symlink to a directory, not a directory".

Definitely it correctly reported "0 directories 1 file" backed up, but it took me some days to notice.

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