[cups.general] Failover without load balancing

[Michael Sweet]

CUPS STR #2878 is tracking this issue, although it hasn't be scheduled  
for a release yet. Feel free to add your comments to the bug:

     http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2878

On Aug 27, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Andrew Miskell wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> 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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