SSL Certificates from GoDaddy - what to backup?

Hi all,

Everyone in this group will, by now, be familar with the SBS 2003 fun
I've had this week! Anyway, prior to doing the swing thing I purchased
an SSL certificate from RapidSSL to allow me to use OWA without
certificate warnings.

When I did the reinstallation I backed up my certificate, and I also
exported the certificate and private key to a .pfx file.

On the new system I couldn't install it. I got caught in the trap of
CCIEW saying that I haven't run the wizard in IIS, or I got messages
about the certificate having already been installed elsewhere, etc.

Luckily I was within my RapidSSL 7-day timeframe so I've been able to
get a refund.

For various reasons I've now bought (and successfully installed) a new
certificate from GoDaddy. They supply their certificates as a .p7b
file (intermediate) and a .crt file.

Perish the thought, but if I had to do a clean install again - what
should I backup? Is it safe to backup just those two files supplied by
GoDaddy? What about the c:\certreq.txt file? I'm sure I'd get trapped
by the "You've not run the wizard" thing again.

I don't see much help in google, so am I asking for the
impossible....or just something very obvious that I'm missing!

Many thanks,




Jim
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