On 2011-05-31 00:40, Karanbir Singh wrote: > the isos are uploading at the moment, will try and put some of this > stuff into a blog post on the qaweb interface > > - KB I don't know whether you use (and can use) the following hack to speed up rsyncing the iso files: - you need to have the full (or mostly complete) package tree on the target - on the target machine manually make the tar archive out of already rsynced package tree, rename that tar to CentOS-whatever_it_is.iso so that it pretends to be the older version of the real .iso - rsync the real iso (CentOS-whatever_it_is.iso) over this template iso The test made with CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso shows: sent 186234656 bytes received 521538 bytes 3626333.86 bytes/sec total size is 4249268224 speedup is 22.75 Just my 2 cents... Andrzej