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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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> **IMPORTANT:** The `reuse_backup` option must be used along with
> `rsync` or `local-rsync` as backup method.
> **NOTE:** Incremental backups of different types are currently incompatible i.e.
> a file-level incremental backup can not be taken upon a block-level backup and
> vice-versa.

### Block-level incremental backups

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> it is adivised to take a new full-backup as divergent checkum configurations can potentially
> lead to issues during recovery.
> **NOTE:** Incremental backups of different types are currently incompatible i.e.
> a block-level incremental backup can not be taken upon a file-level backup and
> vice-versa.
### Limiting bandwidth usage

It is possible to limit the usage of I/O bandwidth through the
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