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Introduce backup file locators

James Fargher requested to merge locator into master

gitlab#35862 (closed)

In order to take incremental backups the location of the backup files needs to be changed so that there is a continuous history of backup bundles instead of overwriting backups every time. This helps ensure that each series of incremental backups can be tied back to a specific full backup.

This MR extracts a "locator" that determines where all the backup files will go for a specific repository and introduces a new locator strategy that uses a LATEST file to point to the directory that contains the most recent full backup.

We cannot immediately switch to a new strategy as there are a number of tests that expect backup files to be in a specific place.

We have to maintain backwards compatibility with existing backups.

Edited by James Fargher

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