paul_farr
You would do a full MySQL dump of the database on the old server (the recommended method is native mysqldump cli command), import the dump into the new MySQL instance (make sure you follow guides on this part as you can royally mess up MySQL if you do it wrong), copy over your include/ost-config.php file from the old server to the new server, update the info in the config file to match the parameters for the new server, and run the upgrader.
Also, I would recommend using v1.17.2 as it has many bug fixes and improvements since v1.17.
Cheers.
