Clone and deploy an instance of AEM (author or publish) to a new server

Hi Clive

Please have a look at his relater forum post:- 

Link:- http://help-forums.adobe.com/content/adobeforums/en/experience-manager-forum/adobe-experience-manager.topic.html/forum__01ar-what_is_thebestway.html

// Clone the instance & incremental Migration of AEM 6.2

Also have a look at this KB article :- https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/kb/CloneInstance.html

// How to clone an existing CQ instance  

    Procedure

• create an online backup (see [1])
• copy the backup zip-file to the target machine where the new instance will be running
• unpack the zip-file in the target directory where the cloned CQ5 instance will be located
• delete all files named listener.properties in
  • crx-quickstart/repository/shared/journal/control
  • crx-quickstart/repository/shared/version/control
  • crx-quickstart/repository/shared/workspaces/<workspace.name>/control
• delete file crx-quickstart/repository/cluster_node.id
• delete all stale .lock files (if existing)
• delete all stale optimize*.tar files (if existing)
• delete all stale lock.properties files (if existing)

After this procedure has finished, following list of items need to be checked:

• if running on the same machine, please change the port of the cloned instance
• once the instance has been started, check configurations and adapt if needed:
  • replication agents
  • admin passwords
  • custom application-specific configuration settings

I hope this would be of some help to you.

~kautuk