Cacti maintenance defines the standard procedures needed for backing up the database and managing the RRD files. As you've learned, the RRD files contain the polled performance data, whereas the database only holds configuration data. Let's take a look at both from a data management point of view.
An introduction to Cacti maintenance
Database
As you've seen in previous chapters, the MySQL/MariaDB is the main configuration repository for any Cacti installation, and all your defined hosts, templates, and graph definitions are stored there.
RRD files
The RRD...
