-# a note about includes and excludes:
-# All the excludes come after all the includes. The order is
-# not otherwise taken into account.
-
-# files to include in the backup
-# (supports globbing with '*')
+## how many days of data to keep
+## (you can also use the time format of rdiff-backup, e.g. 6D5h)
+## (to keep everything, set this to yes)
+## an example setting would be:
+##keep = yes
+##
+## Default:
+# keep = 60
+
+## A few notes about includes and excludes:
+## 1. include, exclude and vsinclude statements support globbing with '*'
+## 2. Symlinks are not dereferenced. Moreover, an include line whose path
+## contains, at any level, a symlink to a directory, will only have the
+## symlink backed-up, not the target directory's content. Yes, you have to
+## dereference yourself the symlinks, or to use 'mount --bind' instead.
+## Example: let's say /home is a symlink to /mnt/crypt/home ; the following
+## line will only backup a "/home" symlink ; neither /home/user nor
+## /home/user/Mail will be backed-up :
+## include = /home/user/Mail
+## A workaround is to 'mount --bind /mnt/crypt/home /home' ; another one is to
+## write :
+## include = /mnt/crypt/home/user/Mail
+## 3. All the excludes come after all the includes. The order is not otherwise
+## taken into account.
+
+## files to include in the backup