Originally Posted By: DWallach
When the image I want to push is too large, I simply carry it home, run the rsync locally, and then carry it back to work. Smaller incremental rsync ops run faster.

If you have an Ipod or suchlike, you could look into "rsync --only-write-batch" which is for solving exactly that problem. (And which was added to rsync following a suggestion made on their mailing-list by, uh, me.)

Peter