Oliver,
I haven't been following this thread, but here's how I do it.
It's quite simple.
1. Copy the folder with Zope in. 2. edit z2.py to change all references to the old folder to the new folder. 3. edit the start script in the same way.
That should be it.
Thanks Phil, but that didn't do it for me at that time. IIRC I forgot one path at first, but corrected that later. Anyway, when grepping around I found out that the full path to the old install was contained in every .pyc file and python hadn't bothered to recreate them when I started the new zope. But even when I deleted all *.pyc I couldn't get loginmanager going at all (zope/loginmanager/zpopyda all pretended to work, but postgres never saw any sql-query and all logins failed). All in all it was very wired and made me think that this "cloning" might be tricky and ask for a "standart procedure". cheers, oliver