rsync - Oct 2008 - rsync recovery of system backup to different Linux computer

I have been making off site backups of my CentOS Linux servers using rsync. 
One of my hosting companies has suddenly gone out of business and I am
unable to access the server that I was renting at that location, however, I
have a complete system backup on another Linux server at a different
location.  My question is: Is it possible for me to load that rsync backup
to another computer system that is from a different hardware manufacturer? 
That is, once I have procured a replacement system from another vendor, can
I then recover from the rsync backup that I made from the original computer
that is now unavailable.

I am very confident in both my backup and recovery rsync scripts, however, I
am uncertain if the new system would work once the rsync backup was
recovered since its a different piece of computer hardware.  FYI, the script
that I am using on my source box is:

#!/bin/sh
#
# rsync backup of entire sourcebox.com server to destinationbox.com
#
echo
echo "THIS SCRIPT MUST BE RUN AS user=root."
echo;echo "Executing rsync to destinationbox.com. Using key authentication
to connect..";
sync;(rsync --rsync-path "sudo rsync" -vaHxz --numeric-ids --delete /
-e ssh
username@destinationbox.com:/backup/rsync_from_sourcebox) >> rsync.log
2>&1;
sync;(rsync --rsync-path "sudo rsync" -vaHxz --numeric-ids --delete
/boot -e
ssh username@destinationbox.com:/backup/rsync_from_sourcebox)

I am merely trying to avoid a total system reload.  So, any tips would be
appreciated!

Thanks,

Gordon
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On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 05:49 -0700, gldickens3 wrote:
> I have been making off site backups of my CentOS Linux servers using rsync.
> One of my hosting companies has suddenly gone out of business and I am
> unable to access the server that I was renting at that location, however, I
> have a complete system backup on another Linux server at a different
> location.  My question is: Is it possible for me to load that rsync backup
> to another computer system that is from a different hardware manufacturer? 
> That is, once I have procured a replacement system from another vendor, can
> I then recover from the rsync backup that I made from the original computer
> that is now unavailable.
> 
> I am very confident in both my backup and recovery rsync scripts, however,
I
> am uncertain if the new system would work once the rsync backup was
> recovered since its a different piece of computer hardware.
Try it; you have nothing to lose.  I imagine how well the new system
will work / how many problems you may have to track down depends on how
significantly the new hardware differs from the old.  I have never done
this kind of recovery so I don't have a point of reference.

Matt