Web hosting domain - Database Management The third item in the administration
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007Database Management The third item in the administration view is the Database Management screen. OpenCms uses a relational database (in our case, an MySQL database) to store the contents of the Virtual File System (VFS), as well as ancillary data such as user accounts, activity logs, and content history. Although the VFS is contained entirely within the database, the user sees it as a file system organized no differently than the normal operating-system file hierarchy (as we saw in Chapter 3). Likewise, OpenCms abstracts away from the details of database interaction, so you can perform most tasks without giving a thought to the underlying database operations. However, as an OpenCms administrator, you may need to perform certain maintenance tasks that deal more directly with the underlying database. The Database Management screen in the administration view contains tools for this purpose. The Database Management screen has two sections. The Database Import/Export Tools section is used to access tools that move data into and out of the database. These tools come in handy for backing up OpenCms, restoring an older database and even loading content from other OpenCms servers. In OpenCms 6.0, this section has three buttons, Import File from Server, Import File with HTTP, and Export Database. The second section is called Additional Tools. This section is used to access tools that also operate on the contents of the database but perform more specific tasks. Rather than just moving data to and from the database, these tools conduct additional processing such as
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