copy configurations

[Helge Blischke]

Marc Ziegenhagen wrote:
> Hello Helge
> 
> This files I know, but this files haven't the original filename from the ppd-files in the directory
>         /usr/share/cups/model
> But to install with the lpadmin I need the original-name of the files in the /usr/share/cups/model. So my question is how I find out this original filenames?
> 
> Marc Ziegenhagen
> 
> 
>>For all printers in the printers.conf file, the line
>>	<Printer name_of_this_printer>
>>you'll find a file
>>	/etc/cups/ppd/name_of_this_printer.ppd
>>
>>Helge
>>
>>
>>--
>>Helge Blischke
>>Softwareentwicklung
>>
>>H.Blischke at acm.org
>>Marc Ziegenhagen wrote:
>>
>>>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not to use an outdated cupsd.conf from a CUPS 1.1 installation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
>>>>--
>>>>SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany
>>>>AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex
>>>>
>>>
>>>
> 

You do not need to reinstall these printers. All information
you need is contained in printers.conf and the said PPD files.
I suspect there is no way to regain the original PPD names
from the model directory.

Helge

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Helge Blischke
Softwareentwicklung

H.Blischke at acm.org