Distrubuter has sick hardware. Need to change box.

We run our distribution on another server ie not on the publisher.
We have had some hardware errors and to be honest it's an old machine and
spares are getting sparse.
Is there a step by step for moving distribution to another server?
Thanks
Paul
The short answer is no. The longer answer is no there is not step by step
guide for moving a distributor to another server.
An even longer answer is, no, but it is possible to do a tape restore to the
new distributor with the same name bounce it and hope for the best. I don't
like remote distributors. DBAs IMHO are too quick to migrate to them, and
you need to cluster them otherwise you have a single point of failure which
can be problematic for you as you have discovered.
Hilary Cotter
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"Paul Cahill" <noname@.anon.com> wrote in message
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> We run our distribution on another server ie not on the publisher.
> We have had some hardware errors and to be honest it's an old machine and
> spares are getting sparse.
> Is there a step by step for moving distribution to another server?
> Thanks
> Paul
>