My recent problem happened as an emergency the 'saving grace ' was that it was a Sunday afternoon, I could delay the process to first thing Monday AM and this database was reasonably small.
However thinking about the future any 'new' server will require 1) contacting AC to get a new verification number to load the AC program then 2) waiting till after completion of a days work ie after office hours to create a new .enc, then send that .enc to AC for the secret sauce so that the .enc can be sent back and used to restore the data to AC. Even if one is fortunate and gets a qualified tech immediately the process stinks of pain in the [censored].
There has got to be a better process for registered users to utilize other machines, have portable offsite backups that can be used when needed without holding a seance.
Thanks for your thoughts Bert