[cups.general] Re: Multiple servers

[Alan Silver]

Helge Blischke wrote:

>Alan Silver wrote:
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>>Hi all:
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>>I have set up 2 cups servers on my network. Both on redhat enterprise linux 3. And this set up has been working just fine. Right now, if I need to create a print queue, I am using the web interface on both servers.
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>>Is there an easy way for me to create the print queue on one machine and then update the second machine via a script. Both servers will look the same (i.e. they will host the same exact print queues). I was thinking that I could copy over some files (/etc/cups/cupsd.conf, /etc/cups/printers.conf,  /etc/cups/ppd/*) and restart cups and everything would be fine. Any thoughts  from people who have done this?
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>>alan
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>If you really need to (for failover reasons, e.g.), you need to copy
>over
>- /etc/cups/printers.conf
>- /etc/cups/ppd/foobar.ppd
>where foobar is the name of the newly added printer
>
>Note that on the destination server, you meed to shut down CUPS before
>coying the
>files and start it again afterwards (otherwise the copies printers.conf
>will be
>overwritten).
>
>Helge
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Thank you very much Helge !

Yes, I would like to do this for failover. Is this the bets way to do 
failover (without any intervention)? Or is there some other "best 
practice" way to do this?

alan