sudo sh pull-printer-config.sh <sourcemachine> <adminuser>

#!/bin/sh
#
# (c) Copyright PaperCut Software, 2007
#
# Author: Chris Dance (chris.dance <a> papercut.com)
# A simple script to copy printer configuration from one Apple Mac OS X 
# system to another.
#
TARGET_HOST=hostname
SRC_HOST=$1
SRC_USER=root
if [ -z “${SRC_HOST}” ]; then
echo
echo “USAGE: pull-printer-config SOURCE [USER]”
echo "    SOURCE: The remote system whose printer config you’d like to copy."
echo "    USER: An admin level user on the source system. If not defined root is used."
echo
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -z “$2” ]; then
SRC_USER=$2
fi
userid=id | sed "s/^uid=\([0-9][0-9]*\).*$/\1/"
if test “${userid}” -ne 0; then
echo “Error: Please run this script as root (e.g. sudo pull-printer-config)” 1>&2
exit 1
fi
echo “Copying printer configuration from ${SRC_HOST} to ${TARGET_HOST}.”
echo “Enter the password for the user ${SRC_USER} on ${SRC_HOST} if requested.”
echo “You may be requested for your password multiple times.”
echo

On the target system take a copy of our cups config and set ourselves as the
owner.

echo “Preparing config on source server…”
ssh -t “${SRC_USER}@${SRC_HOST}” 

“sudo sh -c 

"rm -fr /tmp/cupstmp; cp -R /etc/cups/ /tmp/cupstmp; chown -R ${SRC_USER} /tmp/cupstmp"”
if [ “$?” -ne “0” ]; then
echo “Error: Unable to source config of remote system” 1>&2
exit 1
fi

Use scp to copy our temp copy over to our local system.

echo “Copying config…”
rm -fr /etc/cupstmp >/dev/null 2>&1

Move old config

scp -rpq “${SRC_USER}@${SRC_HOST}:/tmp/cupstmp/” “/etc/cupstmp”
if [ ! -d /etc/cupstmp  ]; then
#
# Error so restore our backup
#
echo “Error: Unable to copy files.” 1>&2
exit 1
fi
datestamp=date +%y%m%d
mv /etc/cups “/etc/cups${datestamp}” && mv /etc/cupstmp /etc/cups

Restart the CUPS server so it picks up our new config.

killall -HUP cupsd
echo “Copy complete.”