Can i use a backed up library?

ok so my computer crashed and i had to frag the harddrive (delete everything, now im in the process of putting it back on). before the drive was fragged, i managed to get all my music, videos pictures, documents, and itunes database files backed up to a backup drive. what i want to know is if i can get the EXACT same library from my backup drive onto my computer. its the same computer. can any of these files get my library back WITHOUT re-uploading everything? the only reason im really concerned is i want my play counts back, but also to avoid the inconvience.

In iTunes,
Go to File -> Add folder to library.
Add the media to your library, then close out of iTunes.
When you click on the iTunes icon, hold shift.
When the dialog box comes up, click "Use existing Library"
Find the "ITL" File in your backup drive, then import.
There you go.
Hope this helped.

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