Environment:
LDMS 9.6+
How to:
Before LDMS 9.6, you would create a staged repair when creating the repair task by checking a specific box. In 9.6 this is slightly changed and requires a few additional steps.
Step by Step:
1) Begin by creating a repair task. In the task settings section, make sure "Pre-cache" is selected (instead of "Download and execute"). This task, when run, will load the patch into the sdmcache of the client but not run the patch.
2) Create another repair task using the same group of patches. This time, you are going to leave them "Download and execute" selected. This task, when run, will run the patches already loaded into the sdmcache of the client. If any downloads were missed in the first patch, an attempt to re-download them will be made.
3) Schedule both tasks ensuring the first task to run is the "Pre-cache" task.