Perhaps we should create a topic called “Known pitfalls and confusions”? Things to include there would obviously be the filtering logic in general and this symbolic links issue in particular. Another thing might be the terminology issue around snapshots etc.
One could also recomment to new users to start installing the web-ui and switch to CLI if so desired rather than the other way around (cause this wont work without extra effort).
Another thing I can think of would be fixed vs variable chunksize (pointing out that it might be worth working with two repositories, one for databases etc and the other for the rest.
I’m sure there’s more…
Edit: to think twice before using -bit-identical
might be another candidate, though it’s probably not relevant for the average user.