I want to reinstall lion server

I have a Mac Pro that came with Lion Server installed.  I went through the setup and added it to my network.  As I look through the documentation, I'm thinking I want to reinstall it and run it as a migration from our Mac Pro with Snow Leopard Server.  Can I do a reinstall by holding the command R on bootup and then go through and do a migration?

Yes I did do it from the recovery section. I think when I first booted up Lion Server, the App Store registered Lion and Lion Server on my Apple ID Account so I can downloaded them again for free.
So, I used recovery to reinstall Lion (for free) and once it had all installed, I downloaded Lion Server again (for free from the Apple Mac App Store).
Hope this helps!

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