topic Re: Printer migration in Operating System - HP-UX

Printer migration

mukesh_a — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:02:54 GMT

Hi All ,
we are migrating my hp-ux 11.11 server from old to new one and our old server we have the 500 printer , it's very difficult to setup all the printer manully in new server can some body help me to copy printer from old server to new server what are those file which are required to work entire printer smoothly.

Re: Printer migration

Robert-Jan Goossens — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:38:45 GMT

Hi Mukesh,

The easiest method is;
# sam ->Printers & Plotters ->LP Spooler -> Save/Restore Spooler Configuration.

Save - will store the data in /var/sam/lp. Copy that directory to your new host and Restore.

Hope this helps,
Robert-Jan

Re: Printer migration

skt_skt — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:34:46 GMT

you dont need to keep the spooler down while save the printer config.While restoring stop sppoler and start once the restore is completed.

/usr/sam/lbin/lpmgr -S -xsavedir=/var/sam/lp.backup

tarnsfer lp.backup to target and replace /var/sam/lp

at target(default recovery location is /var/sam/lp)

/usr/sam/lbin/lpmgr -R

Re: Printer migration

skt_skt — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:39:36 GMT

at the traget.

chown -R lp:bin /var/sam/lp

chown -R lp:lp /var/sam/lpmember /var/sam/lpinterface

Comapre with the source if permission is simialar too

Re: Printer migration

skt_skt — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:39:49 GMT

at the traget.

chown -R lp:bin /var/sam/lp

chown -R lp:lp /var/sam/lp/member /var/sam/lp/interface

Comapre with the source if permission is simialar too

Re: Printer migration

mukesh_a — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:29:34 GMT

Thanks All for youe valuable answer

Re: Printer migration

mukesh_a — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:08:43 GMT

one more clarification ,

Already few printers are avaiable in target printer once i will restore the /var/sam/lp
it will disturb the existing printer

Re: Printer migration

skt_skt — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:17:08 GMT

you will lose the existing one on the target.

Re: Printer migration

mukesh_a — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:15:29 GMT

How can i save those along with new ?

Re: Printer migration

skt_skt — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:54:26 GMT

I would say replicate those print queus to to(i hope thay are less in count) to the source server in this scenario. Later restore all of them to the target. This is one option i feel..