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My site went recently down, and all the data were lost (PHP installation of Drupal 5). What I am left is simple SQL dump from PHPMyAdmin.

I would like to "use" this disaster and finally migrate to Drupal 7. Because of this, I do not know how to continue.

Should I install Drupal 5 first, import SQL dump, and then upgrade?

Is there any way how to save stored data from Drupal 5 (SQL dump) to Drupal 7? If the answer is yes, can you please point me to correct procedure?

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This question has been answered. drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/1420/… I'd advocate the approach from quicksketch.org/node/5739 – Alfred Armstrong Apr 7 at 11:02

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There isn't any other way to update to Drupal 7, if not following the steps you listed. I would rather update to Drupal 6, and then to Drupal 7.
Probably, you could avoid installing Drupal 5, if you restore the database tables used from Drupal 5; you could start with updating to Drupal 6, if you have a copy of the setting.php file used from Drupal 5 (or you can rebuild it). I have never tried this; it could be working in theory, but have some practical problems I didn't think of.

Updating the data from Drupal 5 to Drupal 7 means to execute the update functions Drupal runs to update itself. There isn't any other method, since Drupal executes the updates in a specific order, and hook_update_dependencies() implementations change that order.

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