Migrating a website

Hi all,

I will be migrating a website from one company server to another 
(intranet). I'm taking over the site from another group and there are 
thousands of documents associated with the site. The two major tasks I will 
be tackling are 1) Re-designing and restructuring the site and 2) 
maintaining link-integrity.
Currently, there's no clear file structure, everything seems to be all in 
one directory with only a few sub-directories. There are links all over the 
place to pages within the site and links to other internal & external 
sites. Similarly, there are other web sites with lots of links back to this 
site.

My plan is to leave the original site in place while I work on creating 
(basically) a whole new site with all the same content. Then, when it's 
time to "go live", I would place re-direct pages in place of all the 
original pages for the convenience of those with links & bookmarks to the 
original site.

Does this sound like a good plan? Does anyone have advice or experience 
with such a project? Is there anything else I should consider?

Thanks in advance,
Teri

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