What is the best way to move from server to server?

[Icarus]

Hello everybody,

I would like to be able to easily deploy a full list of categories, products and their images.
At first, I thought the best way to do this would be to use the Import mode - I thought I would create some nice CSV files, and so I can easily deploy on my local machine, and when I am ready, I can deploy on my live machine.

The problem with this is that I could not see where I can associate images to these products.

I also tried to use the Backup tool, but then I noticed that
a) There is no Restore
The backup is (as I understand) a full backup, including orders and users and so on.

So this solution is not so good for moving data around, since I do not want to override my online Users data with my local data, I only want to deploy the catalog.

Any suggestion as for what would be the best way to do this task?
TIA.

EDIT:
Just noticed the Image URL field in the CSV! Thats good!
So this means I just need to place images someplace on the server, and write the URLs here?
So this would be the recommended way to do this migration I guess?

[mooshi]

Hi! there

I found the easiest way was this way...I just moved hosting and it went like a dream!
I downloaded my prestahop to my desk top. I went to cpanel, phpMyAdmin..... export, select all, checked Add DROP TABLE / VIEW / PROCEDURE / FUNCTION......check Save as file...go. Then download to desk top.
On my new host, I created exact same db name and user, uploaded all the prestashop store files. Back to phpMYAdmin, go to the database...import and uploaded the exported SQL file you exported. Then voila! Store is up and running!