Can I load Lion over Mountain Lion or do I need to recover from Time Machine

I have been having problems with my IMac not waking over the network when my apple tv searches for the itunes library. Instead of recovering a time machine backup with Lion, can I just download lion again and install it on my Mac? I am reluctant to use the time machine back up because I would have to spend some time backing up all the content added since mountain lion was installed.

Use Time Machine. You can't download Lion in 10.8. Press Command and R keys in boot and restore the Lion Time Machine copy

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