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I want to do a backup of my cups configuration to transfer it to a new system. But where does cups actually store the printer settings? I've watched /etc/cups/ but the only thing that happened when adding a new printer was that the PPD was added to /etc/cups/ppd/.

Edit: A remark, the configuration actually is in /etc/cups/printers.conf but it was written delayed after actually adding the printer in the web interface. That was originally the reason I couldn't find it. So make sure everything was written, before doing a backup.

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  • What version of CUPS? An older RHEL5 system I have has all sorts of *.conf* files under /etc/cups, in addition to the PPD directory. (If in doubt, crank logging or strace the daemon to find out what it is doing.) Commented Sep 5, 2015 at 15:13

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In Debian Jessie, the whole configuration is in /etc/cups: 

classes.conf interfaces raw.convs subscriptions.conf cups-browsed.conf ppd raw.types subscriptions.conf cupsd.conf printers.conf snmp.conf cups-files.conf ssl

Is your system "non-linux"?

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