copy configurations

Helge Blischke h.blischke at srz.de
Fri Apr 4 09:55:27 PDT 2008


me wrote:
> I'm actually in the process of doing the same thing with 114 print queues..I re-did the cupsd.conf from scratch and then just dumped printers.conf from the old server to the new one and restarted cups..A few hiccups here and there but for the most part all are working fine.
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>>Hello
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>>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.
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>>Thanks for help!
>>Marc
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.... forgot to say: after copying over (and possibly editing) the printers.conf,
you should copy over the /etc/cups/ppd/*.ppd files, otherwise the printers
will be raw printers in the new configuration.

Helge

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