[cups.development] [RFE] STR #3143: Provide setting for number of saved jobs for PreserveJobFiles

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Hello,

https://launchpad.net/bugs/343801 asks for enabling PreserveJobFiles by
default, to make it easier to reattempt a print job after some trouble.

However, I don't see how to configure this by default in a sensible
manner. The number of job files which get permanently stored is controlled
by "MaxJobs". But this also configures how many jobs can be in the print
queue.

Thus we want to leave this at the default 500 to avoid queue rejections in
larger office environments. But at the same time we don't want to
permanently store the 500 last jobs on disk, since that'd take a huge
amount of disk space, which isn't an option on smaller computers.

Would it be possible to have a separate configuration setting
"MaxPreserveJobs" to set a different limit for "PreserveJobFiles"? I think
something like "2" would be a good default, since it is common to reattempt
the previous job, but few people will bother with reattempting the print
job of two months ago.

Thank you for considering!

Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3143
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