Clone Server Configuration Without Nodes, Filesystems, Contents

[Mitch Sako]

I want to setup a test server and need an exact clone of my production
(5.2.2.1 Linux) server and configuration WITHOUT any of the node and
contents.  Is there a dump/restore type operation that will do this
completely?  Other than copying configuration files and manually setting
everything up, is there a way to do this painlessly?  I've done this a few
times manually and I always seem to miss some little esoteric option here
or there.