[cups.general] printers.conf - Attributes

[Michael Sweet]

The best way would be to use IPP/HTTP requests to query the "master" server, however *for now* backing up printers.conf and the PPD files is your best bet.

On Nov 4, 2010, at 6:05 AM, Aaron E. wrote:

> 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?
>> 
>> 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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