Whilst I can't say that I've ever had to move an entire server of databases before, the way I normally move a database, when I don't want to risk losing data, is to detach the database on the source, copy the .MDF and .LDF files to the new server, then attach them there.

The main problems I've found with this are that if you have any full-text catalogs then they'll need completely rebuilding (at times I've ended up having to edit the sysfulltextcatalogs and sysobjects tables (the field ftcatid in the latter), and you'd need to recreate scheduled tasks, DTS packages, and so on. Copying the files only transfers the databases themselves, and not anything that's living on the server itself.

I'm sure there's some very neat and clever way you can do it all with replication, but I've always spent so long trying to get it to work that I've given up and gone back to the tried-and-tested ways of copying files!

When you've successfully done it, I'd be interested to know how it all went and how you ended up doing it - always worth keeping in mind for when I next have to do something similar!

Cheers,