On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 09:14:19AM +0200, Maarten Hoogveld wrote:
> 2009/5/4 Zhengquan Zhang <zhang.zhengquan AT gmail DOT 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.

Thanks a lot Maarten, your reply definetely helped me a lot.

Regards,

-- 
Zhengquan


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