Question

For a Linux server:

• how to Set up a print server (CUPS), allow clients to connect, print to PDF

• Create a script that backs up the printed documents every 6 hours

please can you help me

Answer 1

part 1:

How to setup a print server (CUPS), allow clients to connect , print to pdf.

step 1 : open command prompt with the root admin ( Super user)

step 2: yum install cups   // Installing CUPS Service

step 3: # vi /etc/cups/cupsd.conf    //Configuring CUPS

step 4: # service cups restart    // Restart your CUPS server

step 5: Manage the required CUPS server // https: localhost:631

step 6: Run the setup documents.

part 2: • Create a script that backs up the printed documents every 6 hours

Method 1:

For the script you need to look for these two lpq and lpstat

lpq defines the queued jobs on the default printer which has been set and lpq -l does it more accurately.

lpstat -o is used to print the jobs which are in queue.

Method 2:

Try to create the backup using tar as shown below, which is easy approach

   tar -cvpzf /bk_up/filename.tar.gz /data/directory

if the destination is not present , then make the destination where you want to backup store.

      # mkdir /bk_up

now create the file using vi editor (prescribed) as shown below

     # vi /bk_up.sh

use the below code to set the backup time and necessary conditions

     

#!/bin/bash
TIME=`date +%b-%d-%y`                      # This Command will read the date.
Your_file_name=bk_up-$TIME.tar.gz    # The filename including the date.
source_of_backup=/xyz/www/html                       # Source backup folder.
destination_of_backup=/bk_up                             # Destination of backup file.
tar -cpzf $source_of_backup/$Your_file_name$destination_of_backup

Hope this will work!!!