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checkbackuppg error that was happening today but was not documented 

I'm not 100% certain about what to do in the case that the archive is
valid, so I indicated that maybe we want to extract it in a subdir. we
can adjust that when we find a case where that happens. today's case was
a corrupted archive that we could delete.
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"1", but then you'd need to move the directory out of the way and make

a new full backup.



### NOT-A-DIR



The `dsa-check-backuppg` script expects to find only subdirectories to the

`rootdir`, e.g. `/srv/backups/pg`. This error indicates that there is a file

present in the rootdir that is not a directory.



The file might need to be uncompressed into a subdirectory if possible, or

removed if the archive is corrupted for example if a backup got stopped midway

through to completion.



## Disaster recovery



If a PostgreSQL server is destroyed completely or in part, we need to