Migrate printer from one HP-UX to another

[Julianto]

Hi everybody, i need some help here and i'am newb in hp-ux.
I am attempting to migrate printers from one HP-UX 11.23 server to
another. Both were originally at the same version of Jetadmin.
In old server i have 70 printer added in hppi and i want migrate it to new server without doing manually adding printer one by one.
Please help me..
thanks before

[Julianto]

uhm sory, both of server using the same version of HPPI.

[Yogeeraj_1 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The easiest method is to use SAM ->Printers & Plotters ->LP Spooler -> Save/Restore Spooler Configuration.

'Save' will store the data in /var/sam/lp. You will have to copy that directory to another host and do the Restore.

hope this helps!
kind regards
yogeeraj

[Yogeeraj_1]

Hi again,

There is also the transferqueue utility.

please do "man transferqueue" to get the detailed steps.

all the best!

kind regards
yogeeraj

[Julianto]

thx Yogeeraj i really appreciate it..
it help so much...

[Julianto]

thx Yogeeraj,