You can deploy most of that (rules, fields, taxonomy, variables) with features and strongarm http://drupal.org/project/features http://drupal.org/project/strongarm
(drush also has feature support).
On 5/02/2012 9:10, Roger wrote:
If have 2 virtually identical drupal 7 installs, moeules, themes, etc and I develop for instance a rules set, some taxonomy sets and a few cck fields on my pc, is there any way of just sending only those changes to the server instead of completely dumping the database.
Thanks Roger