move printer configuration (one more time!)

[donna hofmeister]

hi all!

i've been asked to move the printer configuration from one system to another.

i've duly consulted the itrc and have found threads like this:
http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627+1264087200322+28353475&threadId=1248284

i think i've been thru every iteration of how to do this. regardless of the method, i am consistently getting error messages like this on the destination machine (for each printer):

chmod: can't access /etc/lp/interface/model.orig/*
cp: cannot create /var/spool/Xerox/xpxx/printer.foo.com/.49xxprinter: No such file or directory
/var/spool/Xerox/xpxx/printer.foo.com/.49xxprinter: No such file or directory

(just be clear i *am* root!)

to add a bit more to the story....the source system is 11.11, the destination box is 11.23. is that the real problem? if so, is there a way to do this?

thanks!

[Dennis Handly]

>regardless of the method

It would help if you showed which method you used. Using SAM directly and tar? Or lpmgr?

>the source system is 11.11, the destination box is 11.23.

I thought the problem was going to 11.31?

[donna hofmeister]

i did the lpmgr...tar...ftp...lpmgr dance.
i did a variation on the above four-step that involved using cpio.
finally i did the sam....ftp...sam waltz.

doesn't matter -- in every case i got the same errors.

[Dennis Handly]

>in every case I got the same errors.

I had no problems going from 11.11 to 11.23.
But I only have remote printers, no network ones, like it seems you have.

What type of printers and how many do you have?

[donna hofmeister]

xerox -- but they're configured via hppi (JetDirect).

[Robert Salter]

New dance; transferqueue

To copy the Jet Direct printer queues from one server to another.

Remove any â oldâ unused queues from /etc/lp/interface.

Change directory to /etc/lp/interface and tar up the queues, the tarfile name must be â queues.tarâ
cd /etc/lp/interface
tar /tmp/queues.tar *

Copy the tar file to the other server.
scp /tmp/queues.tar srvrX:/tmp/

On srvrX run â transferqueueâ . This server must have Jet Direct installed on it.
/opt/hpnpl/bin/transferqueue


Try it... you like it!

Beers,

robert

[Robert Salter · Accepted solution]

That was ugly wasn't it?

Cleaned it up

To copy the Jet Direct printer queues from one server to another.

Remove any "old" unused queues from /etc/lp/interface.

Change directory to /etc/lp/interface and tar up the queues, the tarfile name must be "queues.tar"
cd /etc/lp/interface
tar /tmp/queues.tar *

Copy the tar file to the other server.
scp /tmp/queues.tar srvrX:/tmp/

On srvrX run "transferqueue". This server must have Jet Direct installed on it.
/opt/hpnpl/bin/transferqueue

[donna hofmeister]

thank you - d

[donna hofmeister]

...and thanks to dennis too!