[cups.general] cups Digest, Vol 51, Issue 6

[henri]

This is one reason to consider using PrinterSetup to manage the CUP's  
queues.

Currently there is no import script bundled with PrinterSetup.  
However, I am quite sure it would not take long to put this together.  
If you come up with something, I know there are other people using  
PrinterSetup who would like to see this feature so please consider  
submitting this back to the project.

Otherwise, you could manually make the PrinterSetup files and then not  
have to worry about this again in the future.

Finally, I am not sure what has changed between these versions of  
cups. Maybe the configuration files are compatible. Have you tried  
just copying the configuration files?

Hope this helps.

Related Link : http://www.lucidsystems.org/printingworks/printersetup


> 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.