Printer migration

[Russell James Walicki]

I am currently upgrading a number of HPUX 10.20 systems to HPUX 11.00 on new hardware. I've been able figure out what I need to tarball on each system to retain their 'settings' for everything EXCEPT the PRINTERS. Making an ignite image for each system is impractical. I've created a standard HPUX 11 ignite image which is installed first, then the 'system personality' tarball is installed next. This tarball includes system specific configuration info (host, dns, netconf, senmail, etc . . . ) along with application specific directory trees.

Is there a list of files and/or directories that I can tar up and copy over that will migrate the printers without having to re-configure them on the new machine?

[doug mielke]

I've used SAM to move printer configs to other servers, all in vers. 11.0. It works great,
save spooler config==> makes a file in the one of the SAM subdirs. Move that file over to new system, run sam resore spooler config, and you're there.
or I imagine you could copy all of the files under /var/spool/lp to the new system...

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Russell,

If you have JetDirect Printer Installer or the newer named products, they have a command named
transferqueue
that is specifically for this task.
command would be something like:
/opt/hpnpl/bin/transferqueue backup
that will create a tarball named
/tmp/queues.tar
that can be used to "import" the queues onto the newly loaded system.
See
/opt/hpnpl/TRANSFER.UNX
for details.

HTH,
Jeff

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

It's rather easy.

1) Go ahead and install the newer JetDirect (as opposed to JetAdmin) software on your 11.0 box. Make sure all your printer hostnames are defined in /etc/hosts, DNS, and/or NIS(+).

2) On your 11.0 box, do an lpshut.

3) Now, we will save the 11.0 stuff -- just in case.
cd /
find ./etc/lp ./var/spool/lp -print | cpio -ocv > /mydir/lp1100.cpio

4) Now on your 10.20 box:
lpstat -t and look for any hund/old print jobs. Cancel them -- no point in moving them.
lpshut

5) cd /
find ./etc/lp ./var/spool/lp -print | cpio -ocv > /mydir/lp1020.cpio
rcp/ftp /mydir/lp1020.cpio to your 11.0 box

6) Now back on the 11.0 box,
cd /
cpio -icvdum < /mydir/lp1020.cpio

7) If your old Network printers used JetAdmin, we need to convert them to the newer JetDirect software:
cd /opt/hpnpl/bin
./transferqueue local
when prompted, respond 'all'.

8) lpsched

At this point, everything, including default printer, should be "good to go".