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Add note in docs about incompatibility of backup types
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Adds a note to both file-level and block-level incremental backup
sections to highlight that they're currently incompatible with each
other.

References: BAR-281

Signed-off-by: Gustavo William <gustavo.oliveira@enterprisedb.com>
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Expand Up @@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ The main goals of incremental backups in Barman are:
Barman currently supports **file-level incremental backups** (using `rsync`) as well
as **block-level incremental backups** (using `pg_basebackup`).

> **NOTE:** Incremental backups of different backup types are currently not compatible
> i.e. a block-level incremental backup can not be taken upon an `rsync` backup and
> a file-level incremental backup can not be taken upon a streaming backup (taken with `pg_basebackup`).
### File-level incremental backups

This feature heavily relies on `rsync` and [hard links][8], which
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