cloudnative-pg / cloudnative-pg/plugin-barman-cloud

When using external clusters, but external ObjectStore is missing, logs complain about missing ObjectStore for backups

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Description

I tried to restore from an external cluster.

For this I created 2 ObjectStore objects: `s3-postgres-backup` and `old-s3`.
I added `s3-postgres-backup` into `.spec.plugins.parameters.barmanObjectName` section, and `old-s3` into `.spec.externalClusters.plugin.parameters.barmanObjectName`.

Here is my Cluster object for reference:

```yaml
---
apiVersion: postgresql.cnpg.io/v1
kind: Cluster
metadata:
name: pg-test
namespace: test
spec:
instances: 2
storage:
size: 2Gi
storageClass: tulip-nvmeof
primaryUpdateStrategy: unsupervised
postgresql: {}
bootstrap:
recovery:
source: old
externalClusters:
- name: old
plugin:
name: barman-cloud.cloudnative-pg.io
parameters:
barmanObjectName: s3-old
serverName: test-cnpg
managed:
services:
disabledDefaultServices: ["ro", "r"]
affinity:
enablePodAntiAffinity: true
podAntiAffinityType: required
topologyKey: kubernetes.io/hostname
plugins:
- name: barman-cloud.cloudnative-pg.io
isWALArchiver: true
parameters:
barmanObjectName: s3-postgres-backup
```

Except, as you may notice, I made a mistake in `.spec.externalClusters.plugin.parameters.barmanObjectName`: I wrote "s3-old" instead of "old-s3".
Cluster failed to start becaue Barman couldn't find the ObjectStore.

Unfortunately, it was very hard to find the mistake because Barman repeatedly emitted logs about "s3-postgres-backup" missing.
I couldn't understand what was happening, until I accidentally discovered that the issue is in a completely different ObjectStore.

```
{"level":"info","ts":"2025-08-31T10:18:03.018676926Z","msg":"Pre hook reconciliation start"}
{"level":"debug","ts":"2025-08-31T10:18:03.018848066Z","msg":"parsing cluster definition","caller":"/workspace/internal/cnpgi/operator/reconciler.go:61"}
{"level":"debug","ts":"2025-08-31T10:18:03.019179367Z","msg":"parsing barman object configuration","name":"pg-test","namespace":"test","caller":"/workspace/internal/cnpgi/operator/reconciler.go:75"}
{"level":"info","ts":"2025-08-31T10:18:03.019225014Z","msg":"barman object configuration not found, requeuing","name":"pg-test","namespace":"test","name":"s3-postgres-backup","namespace":"test"}
```

Barman plugin version: v0.6.0

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