copy configurations

[Helge Blischke]

Marc Ziegenhagen wrote:
> Hello
> 
> We have the problem that we replace a server with a newer one and we want to copy all teh defined printers to the new server (there are about 90 queues). How we can export/import the cups-configurations or read the configurations on one server an rebuild them on the other server.
> The old-server runs with SuSE-Linux 8.1 and the new server with OpenSuSE 10.3. So there also too different cups versions in use.
> 
> Thanks for help!
> Marc

I'd suggest to set up the cupd.conf for the new version
manually - there are too many changes between 1.1.x and 1.3.x.

But you may easily copy over the printers.conf file. The
attributes (like Policy etc.) not known to the 1.1.x are
implictely set to the default values (you might need
to edit the Share attributes; I don't know by heart which
value is the default).

Helge


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