Backup config folder ? Config Symlink ? DeDup? Ghost of excluded data ? File Histroy and Change Track ? Checking backups?

You can use whatever files’ names you want. .kopiaignore is default one but you can specify something different or multiple files.
When using GUI in policies:

There is no explicit include but you can use exclude all and negate what you want to include. Here you are some example:

It uses git style exclusions. If not familiar then do some google. There is plenty of info on Internet.

and here kopia docs: