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   5 <h1>Mixing backups with external snapshots</h1>
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   8   <li>managing disabled bitmaps in libvirt proved to be too complex</li>
   9   <li>each checkpoint creates a new bitmap, but all bitmaps are left active</li>
  10   <li>bitmaps are copied or merged alongside block job tasks</li></li>
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  13 <p>Initial state
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  17         <p style="font-size:20px;">Base.qcow2</p>
  18         <table class="disk">
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  20             <th style="visibility:hidden;">b0</th>
  21             <th>A</th><th>-</th><th>A</th><th>A</th>
  22             <th>-</th><th>A</th><th>-</th><th>-</th>
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