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   5 <h1>Initial qemu pull-mode differential backup</h1>
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   7 <ul>
   8   <li>expose the bitmap over NBD for third-party access</li>
   9   <li>create a new bitmap on each backup</li>
  10   <li>transfer which bitmap is enabled; all others are disabled</li>
  11   <li>merge sequence of bitmaps to perform differential backup</li></li>
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  14 <p>Initial state
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  18         <p style="font-size:20px;">Image.qcow2</p>
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  20           <tr>
  21             <th style="visibility:hidden;">b0</th>
  22             <th>A</th><th>-</th><th>A</th><th>A</th>
  23             <th>-</th><th>A</th><th>-</th><th>-</th>
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  31 <p class="attribution">See also this 2018 KVM Forum presentation:
  32   <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQK5ANionpU">Facilitating
  33     Incremental Backup</a>, Eric Blake</p>