[cups.general] Migrate print jobs to a new server

[Michael Sweet]

Steffen,

The job control files ("cNNNNN") in the spool directory contains the job data for all jobs that have recently been submitted; by default, the last 500 jobs unless you have changed the retention policy (MaxJobs, MaxJobsPerUser, MaxJobsPerPrinter, PreserveJobHistory).

So backing up the spool directory will back up both the not-yet-printed jobs as well as the job history.


On 2013-04-04, at 5:17 AM, Steffen Schoch <schoch at dsb.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have to migrate cups to a new server (new hardware). What I haven't found yet is how to migrate the print jobs from the old to the new system. I have found that I need to copy the spool files (/var/spool/cups) and the job.cache (/var/cache/cups). But it seems to me, that this only works for not yet printed jobs. I also need the jobs which are completed. So how can I migrate the already completed print jobs?
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair