{"id":14452,"date":"2021-10-25T10:43:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T10:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/?p=14452"},"modified":"2026-02-27T13:10:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:40:34","slug":"transfer-account-cpanel-directadmin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/transfer-account-cpanel-directadmin\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Transfer an Account from cPanel to DirectAdmin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Changing the control panel from cPanel to DirectAdmin for your hosting is not that hard. All you have to do is take a backup of your cPanel account and transfer it to your DirectAdmin account.<\/p>\n<h2>To Transfer a cPanel Account to DirectAdmin<\/h2>\n<p>1. Take a full account backup of your cPanel account. If you don&#8217;t know how, here&#8217;s an article that will help you:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/transfer-backup-cpanel-vps\/\">How to Transfer Backup from cPanel to VPS?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The backup file will look something like this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"kb-box-focus kb-box-focus-rounded kb-box-focus-grey\">backup-7.21.2021_08-50-40_USERNAME.tar.gz<\/div>\n<p>The name of the backup file contains your <em>username<\/em> and, the numbers represent the <em>date<\/em> and <em>time<\/em> cPanel generated the backup.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, users with root access can generate a full backup via command prompt by running:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"font-size:15 line-height:20 lang:default decode:true \">\/scripts\/pkgacct USERNAME<\/pre>\n<p>An archive file <strong>cpmove-USERNAME.tar.gz<\/strong>\u00a0will emerge in the <em>\/home\/<\/em> directory.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kb-wisdom-wrapr kb-wisdom-key kb-wisdom-wrapr-green\">\n<div class=\"kb-wisdom-col kb-wisdom-col-icon\">\n<div class=\"kb-wisdom-icon\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"kb-wisdom-col kb-wisdom-col-content\">\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>: The <strong>cpmove-USERNAME.tar.gz<\/strong> filename format is the only way DirectAdmin can restore cPanel backups. If your backup is user-generated, you will have to convert its format.<\/p>\n<p>Use this command:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"font-size:15 line-height:20 lang:default decode:true \">for i in `ls backup-[0-9]*.*.tar.gz`; do { USERNAME=`echo $i | cut -d_ -f3 | cut -d'.' -f1`; mv -v $i cpmove-${USERNAME}.tar.gz; }; done<\/pre>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>2. Next, you have to upload the backup files on the DirectAdmin panel, in a directsay<strong>\/home\/admin\/cpanel_backups<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>3. Log in to your admin account of DirectAdmin.<\/p>\n<p>4. Go to the <strong>Admin Tools<\/strong> section and click on <strong>Admin Backup\/Transfer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/da_admin_backup_transfer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1208\" height=\"188\" \/><\/p>\n<p>5. Click the <strong>RESTORE<\/strong> button.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13591\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/da_admin_backup_transfer_restore.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1580\" height=\"331\" \/><\/p>\n<p>6. Enter the <strong>Path<\/strong>\u00a0for the backup file.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13592\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/da_admin_backup_restore_path.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1578\" height=\"354\" \/><\/p>\n<p>7. Click the <strong>NEXT STEP<\/strong> button until you arrive at <em>Step 3<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>8. Select the backup file and click <strong>RESTORE<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13597\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.in\/hosting-faqs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/da_admin_cpanel_backup_restore.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1586\" height=\"492\" \/><\/p>\n<p>DirectAdmin will restore the backup making your account transfer from cPanel a success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changing the control panel from cPanel to DirectAdmin for your hosting is not that hard. All you have to do is take a backup of your cPanel account and transfer it to your DirectAdmin account. To Transfer a cPanel Account to DirectAdmin 1. Take a full account backup of your cPanel account. 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