for anyone who wants or was planning to make a cpanel -> direct admin
converter and didnt know what cpanel files needed to do what, here is a
break down. I am no cpanel guru but this is what I made from what I had.

download the cpanel account backup: http://www.3spades.net/cpbackup.tar.gz


folder structure, bold means its a folder

cp - cpanel user file
cron - holds cron job file
fp - frontpage config files
homedir - public_html/ftp folders, mail folders, etc folders. term folders,
logs - logs
mm - mailing list files
mma - contains priv and pub folders, always empty
mysql - each database has a folder inside are the table myi myd frm files
va - mail autoresponders
vf - mail fowarders (i think), contains domain and park/addons, no info
inside files
addons - addon domains and their corresponding subdomains
mysql.sql - all databases
nobodyfiles
pds - park domains
proftpdpasswd - ftp passes
quota - disk quota (in mb)
sds - subdomains
shadow - shadow file
shell - type of shell

------------------------
cp/username output:
IP=x.x.x.x - ip of the domain or shared ip the domain is on
STARTDATE=1072493354 - generated creation of account date
DNS=tester.com - main dns info, always specifies main domain on account
RS=x - cpanel theme, not important in move to direct admin
OWNER=root - owner of the account ie:root or username of reseller
PLAN=undefined - name of plan if specified on signup
MAXFTP=10 - max ftp accounts
BWLIMIT=104857600 - bandwidth limit: # / 1024 / 1024 = bandwidth limit in
megs
MAXSQL=10 - max sql datbases
MAXPOP=10 - max pop3 addys
MAXLST=10 - max mailing lists
MAXPARK=1 - max park domains
MAXADDON=1 - max addon domains
FEATURELIST=default - cpanel feature list, useless info for direct admin
MAXSUB=10 - max subdomains
DNS2=buddy.tester.com - dns2-# will represent a subdomain, park domain or
addon domain
------------------------

fp/domain.com.cnf output: (note: i grabbed this from a clients file who has
fp extentions installed, i dont know much else other than the self
explanetory stuff in this file)
MailSender:webmaster@domain.com
SMTPHost:127.0.0.1
authoring:enabled
extenderversion:5.0.2.2623
frontpageroot:/usr/local/frontpage/version5.0
serverconfig:/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
servertype:apache-fp
vti_encoding:SR|utf8-nl
SMTPHost:127.0.0.1
SendmailCommand:/usr/sbin/sendmail
------------------------

va/domain.com output:
juice@tester.com: |/usr/local/cpanel/bin/autorespond juice@tester.com
/home/tester/.autorespond
*: tester - catchall route to main email account
------------------------

homedir/mail:
account1/inbox
account2/inbox
domain.com/account1/inbox
domain.com/account2/inbox
------------------------

homedir/etc/ and homedir/etc/domain.com/
passwd - mail passes
quota - mailbox quotas
shadow - shadow
------------------------

addons output:
addon.com=somesub_maindomain.com - addon.com runs from subdomain
somesub.maindomain.com
------------------------

pds output: (looks like ServerAlias output)
www.parkeddomain.com parkeddomain.com
------------------------
