[Zope] Duplicating a Zope Instance

[Dan Shafer]

I'm trying to figure out the best way to take an existing Zope instance on 
a remote server, which has a *lot* of virtual host stuff and quite a bit of 
product installed, and replicate it on a local Win2K box both for safety 
and to give me a local instance to experiment with.

I copied down Data.fs and the related index file to my local Zope instance 
and fired up the local instance. Of course, I generated a huge number of 
errors. Not surprising. It became obvious I'd have to either copy down or 
reinstall locally all the products I've added to the remote Zope instance.

But I'm not at all sure what pieces of the Zope install are essential, 
which will be automatically generated if not found (indexes?), or, frankly, 
much of anything else about this process.