moving printers

[Shane Russell]

Hi,

I am migrating my HP-UX 11.00 system to a new HP-UX11i system. I have 30 or 40 remote and network printers that I need to move.

Is there any file I can copy over or so I need to recreate them all in SAM,

regards,
Shane

[Ralph Grothe]

If I remeber correctly you can copy the whole subdir of /var/sam/lp and import all printers on the new box

e.g.

# cd /var/sam && tar cf - lp|remsh newbox 'cd /var/sam tar xf -'

there start sam and go to the printers section.

But be careful if you already have defined printers on newbox, they will be lost!

[Shane Russell]

Thanks Ralph,

However, there is no /var/sam/lp directory on my old box.

Any other ideas anyone?

[Ralph Grothe]

Oops, typo in the remsh part insert two ampersands.
Also on oldbox you first need to save your current print queues with sam if you haven't administered them with that tool.

[Shane Russell]

All,

I have used SAM to save the printer configuration on the old box and un-tarred it to the new server.

Then in SAM I select can see my 132 printers and try to restore them. However, even thought it says that they were successfully restored I do not see them in the Printers/Plotters.

lpstat does not show any printers
root@nquinch:/root # lpstat
no entries

regards,
Shane

[Shane Russell]

I resolved my issue as follows:

Save Spooler Configuration
On the source system using SAM --> Printers & Plotters --> LP Spooler --> Save/Restore Spooler Configuration.

Select Actions --> Save Spooler Configuration to save the configuration to /var/sam/lp

On the source system excute "tar cvf /var/tmp/printers.tar /var/sam/lp and transfer to target system.

Restore Spooler Configuration
On the target system excute "tar xvf printers.tar"

On the target system excute "chmod 755 /var/sam/lp"

Ensure the following is installed:-
root@nquinch:/var/sam/lp # swlist | grep -i direct
J4189-11001C E.10.34 Hewlett-Packard JetDirect Printer Installer for Unix

On the target system using SAM --> Printers & Plotters --> LP Spooler --> Save/Restore Spooler Configuration.

Select Actions --> Restore Spooler Configuration to restore the configuration to /var/sam/lp

Run the following command after restoring the printer/spooler configuration through SAM:
# /opt/hpnpl/bin/transferqueue local
Enter the queue name or all to modify all the queues : all

Thanks to all for your help

Shane

[Shane Russell]

thanks