Cloning to a new server

Am just recreating my old server (Google Compute Platform) on Azure. New and old have identical file structures. When moving TaxCycle and applying current options, I get a weird mish-mash of error messages about local vs shared files, wanting to recreate directories (I assume it can’t do this if they already pre-exist) and various Client Manager options do not appear to be in place - but some are.

Is there any reason why this would be so? Doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. An E:\T1data18 folder on one server is exactly the same on the other one…not sure why the Options file would care. (Yes, I exported on the old one and imported on the new one and Applied.)

Has anyone done this? Any ideas?