Yeah I somewhat recently did this to move from the laptop I had forever to the computer in my sig. I’d been putting it off because I had recording and syslog from the firewall going there, and NTP server that the cameras were pointing to as well.
Anyhow Q’s steps were what I ended up doing, but if I had to do it again I wouldn’t copy all the files, as it took more than a day to copy over the network, and I haven’t looked back at two month old videos anyhow (and soon they will be erased naturally by
Blue Iris).
Anyway since I have the dual-NIC configuration, I setup everything (NTP, BI, BIupdatehelper, Sunrise/Sunset service and Syslog on the new computer, exported the config and imported it on the new computer. Since I had a new license for BI I just used that, but easily could have deregistered BI and reregistered the old license on the new computer. Unplugged the old laptop and moved the 2nd network (USB) and plugged in the new computer into both networks, and was back up and running.