Sorry to dig this post up but it answers 90% of my questions and the remaining 10% is on topic...
Anyway, as far as creating a dev environment for the typical LAMP environment goes: Has anyone written up a "best practices" type of checklist to making a copy of the environment on other hardware? Eg: Is it better to go the backup/restore route for the db? I'm quite new to mysql, but every other rdbms I've used doesn't easily allow for cross-platform dump/loads - or at least there is some "catch" to the process.
The rest seems somewhat trivial - moving/altering the apache config and the ubb directory with the php pages.
