Re: Printer disaster recovery dillema

Thank you for your response. My original e-mail says we use the Print Migrator tool to backup our printers currently. My question is there a failover method that does NOT require clustering? If not, how are most people doing disaster recovery for printers in their environment? Are you just down for X amount of minutes or hours while you restore? Are you doing a second print server with the printers on them already?

Matthew

Kenxl Zou (MSFT) wrote:
Hello Matthew,

Thank you for posting.

From your post, my understanding on this issue is: You want to know how to backup and restore printers except MS printer clustering. If I'm off base, please feel free to let me know.

Based on my research, Print Migrator 3.1 is the tool that can meet your requirements.

You can refer to the KB article below to find the detailed steps for performing the restoration:

214795 How to Back Up and Restore a Print Server Configuration
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;214795

Please let me know if you have any other concerns, or need anything else.

Sincerely,
Kenxl Zou
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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We currently have many printers on 1 server, and are looking for a good method of backup and recovery of printers in AD. I am currently using PrintMig.exe to do a weekly backup of all our printers. Our question is , is there some type of DFSish utility that would allow fault tolerance for printers but not use Microsoft's printer clustering? If this is not possible, how could we restore the printers from the PrintMig tool, but quickly and easily get those printers back out to the users without much or no user interaction?

Matthew

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