Migrating OS X Server Data Only

Hi,
Apologies if this is a re-post, as I did ask this question a few days ago but can't find it anywhere on the site any more.
Due to various reasons, spurious errors messages in the logs, etc.. I'd like to rebuild my OS X server from the ground up, format the disk, install Yosemite, install OS X Server and then restore the users and data - but without the server config, which I'd like to recreate from scratch.
Predominately, it's the user account data, and mail data that I want to restore from a backup.
Is this possible?
NB: I have a virtual machine ready to test against, and everything is backed up to multiple points if it all goes wrong.

I did a similar upgrade a while ago.
*have a working backup of the old setup... keep it safe.
Make sure you have 10.6.8 with software updates installed.
Use disk utility to repair the disk, then repair permissions.
Make sure you are using Mountain Lion 10.8.3 from the mac store and upgrade to it. Process should so smoothly.
When everything is ready, get the OS X Server App 2.2.1, the latest and install it. It will migrate everything all right.
It's imperative that you use the latest versions for everything.
We postponed upgrading and kept trying to migrate again and again and only the latest ones work, out of the box.
Older versions had huge problems migrating.

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