There is other stuff on here too, like our 2FA agent and DFS services. It's not the end of the world if i have to start over, but ideally I just replace these files. We have cloud based backups that use an Acronis agent. I don't know if that qualifies as VM level or not, but I have options to restore to VM or physical server, which implies to me that some hardware IDs on a VM level would change if I tried to do a restore