[cups.general] printers.conf - Attributes

[Aaron E.]

What is the best backup scenario for cups printers then?  I've always 
had success on new installs and using the backup printers.conf file..

On 11/02/2010 04:17 PM, Michael Sweet wrote:
> On Nov 2, 2010, at 11:30 AM, Matt LaPlante wrote:
>> When making automated backups of printers.conf, ideally one wants to
>> filter out any non-essential or dynamic fields to prevent unnecessary
>> churn in the backup jobs. I've noticed that with the upgrade to 1.4,
>> several new fields appear to be "informational" and not part of the
>> manual configuration. marker-change-time and marker-levels seem to be
>> the ones most constantly changing, but I'm not sure that anything
>> given under "Attribute" is actually necessary to preserve. Is this
>> accurate? Are there any cases where an Attribute line would be
>> something entered by the administrator, or is it always limited to
>> dynamic informational data? Is it safe to just prune out all
>> ^Attribute lines without risking losing configuration data?
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> You can probably omit the Attribute lines safely, however keep in mind
> that printers.conf isn't intended as a user-editable config file and may
> at some point change/move.
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