On Windows, this means opening Print Management Console on the new server then adding your printers using the Add Printer Wizard one by one or you can use the Print Server Migration feature built into Windows to quickly migrate all your queues, drivers, ports, and settings. These steps will vary depending on whether you have a Windows, macOS, or Linux print server. If PaperCut and your print server are one in the same, then make sure you setup all of the print queues on the new server and test printing before installing PaperCut. Set up and test the print queues on the new server Power off the old server, or disable the network interface.ġ. Migrate the database to the new PaperCut server Inform users of the scheduled downtime for the migration Migrating to a cloud-hosted server? Check out our Best Practices for Private Cloud Hosting for some extra homework before continuing!.from database server 1 to database server 2), have a look at Migrating your database server. If you have an external database, be sure to “comment out” the database connection details in Step 4, so that you won’t wind up with two servers connecting to the same database! Alternatively if you’re only looking to migrate your external database (e.g. There are different steps in this article depending on whether your PaperCut server is configured to use an internal database or an external database (like SQL).
For PaperCut MF customers, we recommend you contact your PaperCut Partner for consultation and technical assistance (their details can be found on the About page of your PaperCut server).
Changing the IP address of your PaperCut server is a wholly different task which we recommend tackling separately, where you will need to follow the instructions in these additional articles: Changing Server Name or IP and How to configure embedded software after a server migration or an IP/Hostname change. This is so that other PaperCut components on the network won’t need to be reconfigured (like the User Client, MFPs running the PaperCut embedded application, Direct Print Monitor, Secondary Servers, Site Servers, Payment Gateways, Web Print Sandboxes, etc…). To keep things simple give the new PaperCut server the same IP address and Hostname as the old one (but don’t let them be online at the same time to avoid an IP address conflict).Have a backup plan and be ready to revert to the old server in an emergency.Schedule downtime and perform the Cutover Checklist tasks when you are ready to transition to the new server.Do the Preparation Checklist tasks first.