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hemstock
06-29-2011, 06:19 AM
I have been trying to backup my database which is fairly large. The process takes some time but when the backup is finished the backup file is only 1mb (0.99 actually). I did this a month ago and since I didn't check the file size of the backup I went ahead and formatted my computer and lost everything. Fortunately I found some older backup and saved most of my database. However I have already tried again 5 times to backup my database and every time the size of the backup file is just 1MB.

Patvs
06-29-2011, 09:46 AM
Did you create the backups in pgadminIII?: http://faq.holdemmanager.com/questions/72/Backup%26RestoreDatabase

Do you have a backup of the archive folder, C:HMArchive.
Did you happen to play ALL of your hands on PokerStars?

hemstock
06-29-2011, 10:35 AM
No I was doing it using HM's utility. I had forgotten you could backup using pgadmin. I just did it and it looks like it worked. Thank you.

No I don't have a backup.
Very small percentage of the hands are on stars.

Patvs
06-29-2011, 01:04 PM
Use pgadminIII instead.

Also backup your archive folder (zip/rar it, so you'll have the original handhistory files)