[opencms-dev] Technical information for a newbie

[Peter Höltschi]

Dear Opencms-Dev-Team
I get to you because I couldn't find any answer to my questions (I went 
trough mailing-archive, documentations and the internet):
First I would like to know if there is any documentation which shows me 
where Website files (*.html, *.jsp, *.xml, *.gif, ...) are saved on my 
harddisk.. What is vfs? Where is the vfs on my disk? Is everything saved 
in mysql? I thought that mysql consists only of tables which contains 
data like an Excel-Sheet. So how is it possible to save a file (e.g. 
index.html) in an mysql database? In case of an backup, which files 
(including this vfs) do I need to backup?

I would be appreciative if you could reply to all my questions to have a 
better technical understanding of opencms.

Thanks in advance

Peter