Moving application to different machine

[kukuluku]

We are upgrading our Web server (IIS) from one machine to another. Both are on Window 2000. The new machine has more power. I was hoping the O/S guys can just transfter everything from one machine to the other (including registry for the application - 3rd party web running on IIS). The guys told me it will not work due to different drives and hardware. It will be hard installing the application from scratch. To me if this won't work, it makes little sense to do system backup. If machine dies it'll have to restore to different machine. Can anyone shed some light here?

Thanks very much in advance.

 

[MoobyCow]

They are probably right. System restores across machines with different hardware will almost never work. Unless there is amazing documentation about what registry settings the application uses, it's impossible to find just the correct settings to export.

You back up the system in case your system crashes and then the problem with that machine gets fixed, when migrating to a new machine you almost always have to re-install things.

Hopefully there is a way to export most of your current setup from the program to the new machine.

Good luck.