Advantages of using database storage are ease of administration as far as it concerns backing up and restoring a Confluence instance. Using your database to save files will also shield you from problems that might arise from invalid characters in file names for the file systems you're using to host the Confluence home directory.
To change Confluence attachment storage, just go to the Administration Console, open the Attachment Storage panel and select the storage type you want:
Take into account that you can switch to database attachment storage any time you need it: even though your Confluence instance is already storing attachments in the local file systems, Confluence will perform a migration of the attachments to the new storage and will soon be back online.
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When migrating attachments from your database to a filesystem, the attachments are removed from the database after migration. However, when migrating attachments from a filesystem to your database, the attachments remain on the filesystem after migration.
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