[cups.general] printers.conf - Attributes

[Aaron E.]

roger that, I use mostly raw print queues and have just recently started 
using the PPD files Since I use the point / print method and share the 
printers through samba..

On 11/04/2010 01:42 PM, Michael Sweet wrote:
> 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.
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> On Nov 4, 2010, at 6:05 AM, Aaron E. wrote:
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>> 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..
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>> 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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