I'm trying to figure out how to set up a new "development" server that will have the same configuration as an already existing and working "production" server. Doing a straight "bare-matel" restore to a different box won't work (of course) but trying to figure out what files should be copied over and which should not is proving to be a tedious task. The system is Fedora Core 3 and the two boxes will be on different LAN segments and have different ip address, different cpu & disk drive configurations, etc. Any suggestions on how to do this (more or less simply) would be appreciated. Here's my idea so far (after installing FC3 on the other box); 1) let rpm tell me which files I've changed on the production system - (rpm -V --all) - edit this list to remove files obviously not needed 2) get a list of "all files" and delete those known by rpm (rpm -qf $file) - again edit this list to get rid of those obviously not needed 3) combine the two lists and create a tarball of those files 4) Extract that tarball to a box where the identical copy of Fedora has already been installed. Anyone have a better idea / experience ? I have this uneasy feeling I'm missing a much easier way to do this . . . TIA Alex ==== -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by Avantel Systems, and is believed to be clean.