Failover without load balancing

[Andrew Miskell]

Are there any plans to add such a feature into a future release of CUPS?

> This is an oft-requested feature, but is currently not supported.
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> On Aug 27, 2009, at 8:49 AM, Andrew Miskell wrote:
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> > 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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