Re: backup manifests

Seems like expected behavior to me. We could consider providing a more
descriptive error message, but there's now way for it to work.

Right , Error message need to be more user friendly .

One scenario which i feel - should error out  even if  -s option is specified.
create  base  backup directory ( ./pg_basebackup data1)
Connect to root user and take out  the permission from pg_hba.conf file ( chmod 004 pg_hba.conf)

run pg_validatebackup - [centos@tushar-ldap-docker bin]$ ./pg_validatebackup data1
pg_validatebackup: error: could not open file "pg_hba.conf": Permission denied

run pg_validatebackup  with switch -s [centos@tushar-ldap-docker bin]$ ./pg_validatebackup data1 -s
pg_validatebackup: backup successfully verified

here file is not accessible so i think - it should throw you an error ( the same above one) instead of   blindly skipping it. 

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