Paperless NGX recovery from folders possible?

[JackBayerTN]

Hello everyone,

I've managed to destroy my working Paperless NGX installation to a point where I deleted the App. When I reinstalled it and configured all host paths as in the previous installation, it wouldn't deploy. Simultaneoulsy I realized that I can't download the same old version which I had before, only the newest.
I have a off-site backup of all the datasets configured in the App (Media, Trash, Postgres etc).

I've moved on to putting a new Paperless installation into a Ubuntu VM where I want to recover my old instance's data.

So here are my questions:

1. Can I setup a new paperless ngx inside the VM and copy over the contents of the archived folders and it will work? (generally speaking)
2. If yes, as I can't install an old version, will it work when I pull in data from v1.17.4_1.1.1 into whatever the newest is at the moment?
3. Are the any caveats I might encounter?

Thank you very much for your support!

Patrick