copy configurations

[Marc Ziegenhagen]

> 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
>
> --
> Helge Blischke
> Softwareentwicklung
>
> H.Blischke at acm.org

Hello Helge

On my system in the moment I have a the following file in the /etc/cups/pdd directory:
hplj4000.ppd
hplj4000pan.ppd
oki5300.ppd
oki5300pan.ppd

But on the new system there has no such ppd-file, there exists only the original ones like HP/LaserJet_4000_Postscript.ppd.gz.
So how can I generate on the new system this printers when I not can take the name of the original pdd file somewhere on the old system?

Marc Ziegenhagen