On the voyage to CPanel, I created a script that has a sole purpose of taring sites and doing a mass backup of the mysql.

http://www.staticserver.com/projects/simbak

This script is very simple, and small. Once you have ran it, you may retreive the data on you're new server by doing the following:

ssh into you're new cpanel box.

su - to become root.

$ cd /home
$ ncftp -u username ensim.server.ip
(enter password)

cd to the directory you told simbak to store the backups.

$ cd ..
$ mget -R directory

All the tar's will be copied to /home.

You will need to untar them all one by one (the bad part).
This is AFTER you have created all of the sites in WHM

Place them all in the appropriate user folders, making sure!! to chown them!!

After the sites data is stored, its time to restore the mysql data:

mysql -uroot -pPASSWORD < database.sql

thats it!
your server is now done.

This script helped me out, maybe it will help you out to. Altho there are alot of better ones on the forums, it is simple, yet powerful.

Surely you meant to create a script to go from cpanel to ensim... surely nobody in their right mind goes from ensim to cpanel.

lol. I'll admit, I do miss Ensim. I had learned so much about it, and made so many customizes, it ran smooth.

However... When it comes to a customer-friendly, easy to navigate panel...CPanel has Ensim beat. =/

Got to go where the money is.

We used the cpanel import, worked for everything but mysql.

I have one ensim box, upgraded to Pro, not really that impressed with ensim all together, support seems weak and updated packages seem to be non-existant.

maybe it's just me.

I thought about using the built in importer..but i decided if somthing went wrong (me not knowing anything about cpanel...) i'd be screwed, lol.

It appears that something is not quite right with Squirrelmail after doing an account transfer from Ensim to Cpanel.

If anyone has any pointers I'd love to hear. Meanwhile I will look into comparing the files manually for file permission errors etc.

Exactly how to run this script on the ensim box? I copied your script, made the server-related changes -- but what next?

Thanks,
LSVF