[cups.general] print job backup

[Jerome Alet]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:58:00AM -0500, Vishwanath wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to make backup of all the print jobs in PS/PDF or 
> in an image format. 

In cupsd.conf set "PreserveJobFiles yes" and restart CUPS.

But BEWARE : the files stored on disk this way won't be exactly
what you want : that is they won't be CUPS' input files, and they
won't always be the final output of CUPS filtering chain (it depends
on your CUPS' configuration and the PPD file's content)

As an alternative you could write your own filter or backend
to do this, see CUPS' doc for details.

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As another option, you could download Tea4CUPS from :

  http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/Tea4CUPS/action_Presentation
  
Install it, then set "keepfiles: yes" in tea4cups.conf if you want  
to preserve jobs as their datas coming from the output of the last
CUPS' filter (the final datas), and/or define a prehook to transform
these datas to PDF or other format in a backup directory (an example
is included in the sample configuration file)
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hth

Jerome Alet