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WSS 3.0 upgrade to Windows SharePoint 2010 Enterprise

Hi expert,

does anyone know what is the proper procedure for upgrading the WSS 3.0 Sharepoint to the SharePoint 2010 Enterprise?

Here's my situation:
1) (currently) WSS 3.0 WFE is on VMware Server; SQL Database is located on a physical Server 2008 Windows/SQL
migrating WSS 3.0 to Enterprise Sharepoint 2010 to...

2) Installing Windows 2008R2 Server for SharePoint 2010 WFE on a VMware Server
3) SQL 2008 database for SharePoint 2010 will be on a physical box with Windows 2008R2
4) Moving WSS3.0 DB to SQL 2008 box (new)

I read about detaching the DB and reattaching but cannot do that as the WSS 3.0 is in production. Is it possible to do a back up and restore to new SQL? what are other recommendation>

Please advise.

Thank you.
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Backup the old sharepoint DB and restore on the new environment .  Double-check then do it for real and change the hostnames/DNS pointer to the new environment.
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What DB you are referring to?
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this only shows the general idea.
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This sound like a complicated process. Old residue might get transffered. All I want is to back up the site content and restore it to the new content DB.
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Thats what my concern is the structure of the SQL schema.
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I might go with another route. Thank you.