[cups.general] Failover without load balancing

[Michael Sweet]

This is an oft-requested feature, but is currently not supported.

On Aug 27, 2009, at 8:49 AM, Andrew Miskell wrote:

> Is it possible to have the failover capability without load  
> balancing? Like an active/passive setup?
>
> We have a fairly large installation of clients that we want to  
> centrally manage their printing. We would be looking to put in a  
> CUPS server in each of our major datacenters (2 in the US, one in  
> Europe and another in Asia), but we only want the clients in each  
> datacenter to print to their local CUPS servers unless that server  
> where to fail, then print to one of the other CUPS servers until the  
> local server is active again.
>
> Load balancing would be great for CUPS servers in the same building,  
> but we would prefer not to be sending print jobs all over the world  
> if there's a perfectly working CUPS server in the same room.
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer