Printer Recreated.

[Marcos Gomes]

How do we recovery the printers without make recovery (Ignite)?

I have a full backup, if I restore the /etc/lp and /usr/spool/lp directories will the printers works again?

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

You are close.
Do an lpshut (to be safe).
You need to restore /etc/lp, /var/spool/lp
You may need /usr/lib/lp
make sure that /usr/spool is symbolically linked to /var/spool.
Make sure that there is a /var/adm/lp direcory.
If you care restore /var/adm/lp to get the logs.
I think that's all but be sure that the proper
permissions and owner/group are set on files and directories.
Start up the scheduler via lpsched.

... I've moved entire printer environments so this should work.

If any of the printer's are networked make sure that the JetAdmin (or whoever's) network printer software in installed.

... Hope this works