You may want to setup a system just for cloning if you create a lot of slices for yourself or customers. You can then just restore it to a new slice, run updat

You may want to setup a system just for cloning if you create a lot of slices for yourself or customers. You can then just restore it to a new slice, run updates, make firewall changes, etc, but at least you get some of the core work out of the way each time - and it's as easy as a few clicks.