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Tip When you are done with your experiment it is always good to clean up and release your resources so other people can use them.
}}} == 8. Archive Experiment == a. If your experiment worked, save your `site.txt` and `siteX.xml` files in version control. == Grow Your Experiment! === Now that you have successfully reserved a small topology, you can now grow your topology. a. Make a copy of `site.txt`. {{{ cp site.txt bigsite.txt }}} a. Edit `bigsite.txt` to have more nodes in the core star topology. {{{ num_nodes = 5 }}} a. Go back to the [../DesignSetup Design/Setup] and repeat everything from Step X onward. ---- = [.. Introduction] =