Cups High availability

Rubinas svats at inbox.ru
Tue Nov 10 05:50:41 PST 2009


> Rubinas wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have question regarding cups configuration sharing or other way of doing
> > things. We have such case that we will have few cups in different servers
> > and everyone cups server should have same configuration. So when we
> > add/change configuration in one server other should change accordingly.
> > Any suggestions?
>
> A method that will not require too much knowledge about the CUPS internals
> would be:
> Define one of the servers running CUPS as the master server.
> Whenever modifying the master server's configuration, shut down all the cups
> servers (including the master cups) and use rsync to distribute the modified
> configuration to the other servers. Then restart all cups instances.
> You only need to know the files which may be affected by a configuration
> change.
>
> Helge
>

Similar way we think through. Just wanted to know if there more robust way to do it or Cups just support such thing :)





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