save & restoring printer configuration

[Jeff Hagstrom]

I have 2 hpk460/9000 machines and want the printers that are one box to be on the other box. In sam there is a save and restore, can I use that function(where does it save to?) or is there a better way of moving all the printers from one box to the other?

[Elmar P. Kolkman]

If you use the default printer configuration from HP, you could copy /etc/lp and all its subdirectories from one server to the next.
Make sure that the printer packages (hpnp, jetadmin or anything else) is the same level or at least installed on both servers before doing that.

[Cheryl Griffin]

You can do so with SAM. Under Printer & Plotters, save the spooler configuration. Use tar to save the contents of /var/sam/lp. Copy the tar file to the other system and untar the directory. Go into SAM and retore the spooler configuration.

[Geoff Wild]

You can also back up the spooler from the command line:

echo Backing up the spooler configuration to /var/sam/lp/lp.new....please wait...; /usr/sam/lbin/lpmgr -S -v -xsavedir=/var/sam/lp/ ; cp -r -p /var/sam/lp/lp.new/* /var/sam/lp/


Rgds...Geoff