Migrating to a Drupal website

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This is a collection of notes about my experience while migrating several sites to a single host.

The main site is located at a single domain, but also has several sites contained in subdomains.
eg -
Main Domain: (www).site.xxx
Sub Domain : sub.site.xxx
Sub Domain : sub2.site.xxx

The sites are running Drupal version 6.

The plan :
Access original websites over ftp and download to my 'staging' server at home.
Export the databases using the 'Backup and Migrate' module.
Test the sites are complete on the 'staging' server.
Upload the sites to the new server and then redirect them to the new server via their Nameserver.