Backing up and restoring a member DC to new hardware.

Hello,
Sounds simple to me but I want to be sure on what I'm doing.
We have many sites with a domain controller at each location. The DC with all the FSMO roles is here at Corp. I need to move one of our member DC controller at a different site to new hardware. It is a Global Catalog, DNS, DHCP and file server.
Can I do this by using windows backup to back up System State, Bare Metal Recovery, System Reserve and Local Disk C: (Full Server) and restore it to the new Hardware as long as my HDD are same or bigger? Please remember this is a member DC.
I really hope to avoid the demotion of the current member DC and installing a fresh OS on the new hardware and promoting that to a DC.
Thanks

Hi,
If there are other healthy domain controllers online for the domain, we recommend that you do not perform a restore at all. Instead, perform a new installation of Windows on the destination computer and run the Active Directory Installation Wizard (Dcpromo.exe)
to make the installation a replica in an existing domain.
You can recover a member DC to new hardwarethe. The hard drives you are recovering data to must be as large as—or larger than—the drives that are included in the backup set.
For more detailed information, please refer to the articles below:
How to restore a Windows installation or move it to different hardware
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/249694#method11
Performing a Full Server Recovery of a Domain Controller
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772519(v=ws.10).aspx
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