Re: [bika-users] Bika Data Storage/Backup/Etc.

[Inus S. <in...@bi...>]

Pralle, Nathan wrote:
> Now that I have my demo instance of Bika LIMS up and running fine, can
> someone explain to me the storage behind it/Zope/etc?   I assume since I
> didn't set up an actual DBMS behind it, there isn't an actual database, but
> things are stored flat-file somewhere.   Where?   And can it be converted
> into a DB-powered system?   If so, is there a doc describing how?   
>
>   
The default Zope setup is to use the ZoDB object database, (see 
etc/zope.conf)
but one could of course use others. (File system, relational backends etc).

In a high-availability load-sharing setup a ZEO server runs the
database behind two or more separate instances.
> I'm thinking for performance, backup, redundancy, etc...if we're thinking of
> putting Real Data(tm) into this system, we have to make sure it's capable of
> running like an enterprise app, which I assume it can given the other folks
> that run it.   
>
> Thoughts/reflections/pointers to things I haven't read yet? :)
>   
Bundled with zope is a script, repozo.py that can be used to back up
and restore the database., including incremental and compressed backups.

Regards,
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