</para>

<para>

Although<application>pg_combinebackup</application> will attempt to verify

<application>pg_combinebackup</application> will attempt to verify

that the backups you specify form a legal backup chain from which a correct

full backup can be reconstructed, it is not designed to help you keep track

of which backups depend on which other backups. If you remove the one or

more of the previous backups upon which your incremental

backup relies, you will not be able to restore it.

full backup can be reconstructed. However, it is not designed to help you

keep track of which backups depend on which other backups. If you remove

the one or more of the previous backups upon which your incremental

backup relies, you will not be able to restore it. Moreover,

<application>pg_combinebackup</application> only attempts to verify that the

backups have the correct relationship to each other, not that each

individual backup is intact; for that, use

<xref linkend="app-pgverifybackup" />.

</para>

<para>