On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 09:14:19AM +0200, Maarten Hoogveld wrote: > 2009/5/4 Zhengquan Zhang <zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com> > > > Hello bacula community, > > > > I am a newbie to bacula and backup but I have decided to use it for our > > backup scheme:) we will backup two servers to a backup server. > > > > I have got a few questions that I have not figured out the answer. > > > > 1.why does bacula use db as backend? why add additional this level of > > complexity to the backup? > > > This is not something you have to know about to be able to use Bacula. The > database is used to store all information about the backups which have been > made including all files and their metadata. A database is the most > efficient way to store that data. > For small installations a sqlite database is sufficient which hardly needs > any setup. Read the documentation about it.
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