Copying production to development

I'm posting this here because, quite frankly, I'm not sure where it should be posted, so forgive my ignorance...
Has anyone create a full development installation by using a copy of their production installation? I mean the full suite: BPEL server, B2B intg server (with mid-tier, infrastructure, repository db, etc), and http server...
I've pretty much narrowed it down to having to do a full install from scratch, then replace the repository and BPEL databases from a backup of the production databases...and I'm not sure what caveats I'll run into with that...
Originally I was hoping to be able to do a full restore of everything and change the configurations with the dev server names, but that obviously isn't going to happen...
I'm pretty much stuck at the moment...
Any thoughts here?

Hello,
Please follow the below steps for migrating the design time metadata.
1. Take the export from your test system and import it onto your production machine.
2. Please note that there maybe some details like modification of
tip.properties with relevant wallet information and other things like SSL
initializations which will need to be done again on the new midtier. Also,
the port information for Http transport and hostname of installed machine if
it has changed needs to be updated in the imported file i.e. the import file
cannot be directly deployed. You might also want to check the delivery channel information after the import in the production system to make sure it points to the appropriate URI needed for production.
Rgds,Ramesh
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Ramesh Nittur Anantharamaiah

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