Some Data Issues:
1) The Products table has a few fields added to it that are populated with important info that are not default fields.
2) The Webpages tables Content field has HREF links in the content to Products, Categories, and Webpages like
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<a href="_P11973.cfm">16118-166-0040</a>
<a href="_W321.cfm">How to Adjust the Idle</a>
<a href="_C8.cfm">VM22/210 Pilot Jet</a>
3) There are extra tables in the database that also need to be migrated.
4) Once the new server is up as a development server I want to bring it up with the latest data, then modify the data as shown above. Then once all the data is tweaked, and the CSS is right, email templates checked, then shut down the live site, Dataport data all except the Webpages Table (or backup edited webpages table and then restore it over the data ported data) then change the license from Dev to www, change IP's and bring it back up.
I have a fresh dual 933/2GB Raid 5 2003 Server ready to host the Able7 cart.
I can use either the SQL Express 2005 or I have a new licensed version of SQL Standard Edition 2005 to use as well.
I have the subscription and have the license for 7.0.0 as well so I am ready to go in this area as well.
I know my server as described above is a bit under the mininmum requirements but Katie said she runs it on a Vista desktop.
I wish to move this cart off site eventually but want to migrate it to an internal live 7.x cart before I do that. If I have to buy a 200$ used server on ebay then so be it. But it may not be cost effective enough in hardware vs extra months of having it hosted. Escpecially when it wont be used once I move the site off site. I also have other 1.0GB servers as well with 1-2GB Ram that I can use to do a dual server solution (one SQL, one ASPX). But I would rather not buy new hardware unless I have to.
Thats most of what Im looking at but I may be overlooking something. Please shed some light on the details of what you would do to maximize efficiency and data integrity for a smooth migration.