* Add immediate safety warning to README
- Remove the production-use claim from Project Status.
- Mark the project experimental until the P0 data-safety checklist
passes, with a prominent warning banner up top.
- Add a Limitations section: warn against modifying hardlinked
snapshots in place, document the lack of a restore command, and
note special-entry exclusion and symlink-preservation behavior.
- Check off the corresponding IMPROVEMENTS.md acceptance criteria.
* Qualify special-entry exclusion limitation to the Python implementation
--external-rsync uses rsync's --archive flag, which copies/recreates
FIFOs, sockets, and device nodes instead of excluding them - the
exclusion behavior only applies to the default Python implementation.
* Qualify device-node recreation reliability under --external-rsync
rsync -a implies -D (devices/specials), but creating device nodes
typically requires root on the destination - without it rsync may
skip or fail on them rather than reliably recreating them.
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Co-authored-by: Maxim Shulga <maxim.shulga@alludo.com>
- Project overview and features
- Installation and usage instructions
- Detailed explanation of how hardlink-based backups work
- Command-line options and examples
- Backup structure and retention policy details
- Development and testing information
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