copying databases to server with same name/IP

I need to copy databases with transactional replication to another box and the new server will be have the exact same name and IP address as the old server. I am planning on copying over complete backups of the master, msdb, model, distribution and userDB
databases to the new box and I was going to do a restore of each, then try to set up the replication again. Is there any way to keep the replication intact so I don't have to set it up again? Is there any particular order in which the databases have to b
e retored?
Try this order
master, msdb, distribution, publication databases. Restore the publication databases with the keep replication switch.
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|||Thanks for the response. I am not so hot with replication - just to clarify - by "publication databases" you mean the user databases right? The ones being replicated? Thanks again.
|||Yes
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