making a sandbox Drupal installation

When you want to try out new Drupal modules you often need to install and configure a number of modules on which the new module depends. With a sandbox environment, you can install the usual suspects one time, store these settings and refresh your sandbox after you're done testing the new module.

Solutions for this problem

This module allows you to take snapshots of your site. It turns a Drupal installation into a sandbox that you can use either for testing modules or setting up a public demonstration site

Allows restoration of the Demonstration Site module's database dumps during site installation.