[SL] HELP - recover from failed drive.

[Andrew @ A. L. <atm...@km...>]

If I have a a few day old backup, but I have the entire contents of my
failed drive ( was able to mount the old drive, and SCP the mounted image to
a working server)  What is the best / quickest way to get the SL back up and
running as it was?
 
e.g.  Can I install SL on the new system... then copy the folders over?  
 
My brain is already overtaxed working out how to restore the rest of
everything so details would be great.
 
My old and new system are SME 7.3  (CentOS based)
 
Thanks.