copy configurations

[Marc Ziegenhagen]

Hello

Thanks for your help. This was also my way what I want to do, but I have the problem to find out where I can get the original names of the ppd-files of defined printer queues on the old system. Because in the printer.conf is only the name of the copied pdd-file who is in the /etc/cups/pdd directory.
Where can I find out the original name of those defined printers?

Thanks
Marc Ziegenhagen

>
> Hello,
>
> On Apr 4 07:03 Marc Ziegenhagen wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Read
> http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell
> in particular see
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Do not edit the configuration files in /etc/cups/ manually
> if suitable command-line tools are available for this purpose.
> ....
> For example, to set up the same queues on several machines
> (e.g., for a backup server), do not copy /etc/cups/printers.conf
> and /etc/cups/ppd/*, but write the respective commands in a script
> (usually a sequence of lpadmin commands) and run the script on
> the various machines.
> ..
> ..
> ..
> Up to SUSE LINUX 10.1 we provided CUPS 1.1 and since openSUSE 10.2
> we provide CUPS 1.2 which is not fully backward compatible
> with CUPS 1.1. Therefore in case of an update it is recommended
> not to use an outdated cupsd.conf from a CUPS 1.1 installation
> before but to start from scratch with the original cupsd.conf
> from our CUPS 1.2 RPM.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Kind Regards
> Johannes Meixner
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