How to backup/restore IIS 5.1 or move to another machine?

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We have a web based application that run on an Intranet. For various reasons, we are constrained to using Win XP and the version of IIS that ships with it, 5.1.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325889 talks about backing up IIS, but the sentence:

"This backup method does not work if you reinstall your operating system."

makes me nervous. Our main reason for backing up is in the event of catastrophic failure, which would certainly mean reinstalling the operating system. I imagine there must be a fairly painless mechanism for backing up and restoring to a fresh machine (or moving to a different one), but I have not found it. Also this is instructions for manually backing up. An automated process would be even better.

thanks!

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