The server that my installation of WSUS sits on needs a rebuild. I want to keep all of my settings and config so that once I have rebuilt the server with Windows and put WSUS back on, I can just apply the same config and settings as what I have now.
I am assuming that all I need to do is stop the WSUS services, take a backup of the database (which is within a SQL instance), rebuild the server, install WSUS and recover over the database that the new version of WSUS has created?
Is there more to it that that, will my method even work?
You can't dangle the bogus carrot of possible reconciliation in front of me whilst riding some other donkey