how to make a very large radmind image, faster

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Published on 2009-12-14T22:37:37Z Indexed on 2010/04/29 11:07 UTC
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Making the new Snow Leopard radmind image* for my lab involves manipulating over 50GB of applications, including passing them over the network. Each try takes four hours or more, and if it fails there's no apparent way to pick up again from partway through. Instead I have to delete all the data (a minutes-long operation) and start over. Furthermore, one successful upload just means now I get to test whether the image works; if it doesn't, I can look forward to repeating the upload as many times as I need to troubleshoot.

How can I do this faster and/or smarter?

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