Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulyJames200x
Fozzy thanks a lot.
One other thing i want to ask and i asked this last time.
But i want to clean my HEM2. What is the name of this process? I previously had vacuumed it i believe? i dont know the term but it took like 10 minutes max. The thing is my ssd hard drive which is 250gb... is close to running out of space. Have about 30gb left. I know this has to be holdem manager 2 as i rarely instead anything on computer and back then it i had more than 150gb available on my laptop a while back.
Is there a way to find out how much gb holdemmanager2 is using on my computer? It has to be at least 50gb at the absolute minimum right?
If you open the HM2 DB Manager it will tell you the size of the PSQL \data folder, which you need to approximately double for total database size.
To find out visually, what is taking up the largest blocks of space on your hard drive, I would suggest you try this free software -
http://windirstat.info/
You can use NTFS compression on the DB folder in roaming and the postgres\data\base folder to make it smaller -
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/251186
You can put your postgres data folder and the HM2 database parent folder on a different drive but if you move it from a SSD to a HDD you will suffer a decrease in performance -
http://hm2faq.holdemmanager.com/ques...e+or+Partition
In HM1 there are a lot of tables that deal with a specific hand played by a specific player. In HM2 we don't have these tables, instead, for player related hand data, we use a flat file approach. Each player has his own folder and each file represents a single day. Each line within the file is a tokenized version of a single hand with incredible amounts of detail. Your overall HM2 spaced used (DB + Files) is about 2/3 of HM1 and we store probably 2-3 times as much info plus it can be accessed many, many times faster and allows us to do some things that wouldn't be possible otherwise. If you don't want the space in your Roaming folder due to limited C: file space, we do give you the option of storing this data anywhere when creating the database.
General rule is 1 million hands = 10 GB.
In reality it's: 1 million hands
HM1: 6.8 GB
HM2: 4.3 GB
PT4: 13.6 GB
HM3:* 6.0*GB
So with a 10 million hand database you need a SSD of at least 60 GB (Windows) + 100 GB = 160 GB. We use 1 million = 10 GB (instead of 6.8) because when you want to perform a vacuum/analyse or backup/restore a database it will require a LOT of disk space to perform such a task.
We recommend you maintain more than 20% free space on your system drive. Please see this FAQ to clear up some more free space - http://hm2faq.holdemmanager.com/ques...+of+Disk+Space
Please see these guide to optimize your SSD:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...weak,2911.html
http://itexpertvoice.com/home/super-...at-them-right/
Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulyJames200x
And the process to do this... it would make my hem2 database go from say 100gb to probably like how much? Thus i never did anything with it. So i do this, it removes old hand histories and results? If so from how long ago? That would also mean players that have say 3000 hands on... they will now have how much? And how often should this be done? I think i should do this since i have only 30gb left in my ssd? And how long would this process take? Could i do anything on my laptop while this process is happening?
All you can do to reduce DB size is vacuum it, or purge/delete hands from it then vacuum it. Most people don't maintain a lifetime DB, or of they do they use a smaller DB of the last 3 - 6 months of hands for live play when auto importing and a separate lifetime DB they manually update from time to time.
Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulyJames200x
Also a related question. I want to backup my windows 10 pro laptop and read online that there are programs like AOMEI and macrium for that. Now i never backedup hem2. Does this process take long? And if i back it up to an external hard drive... let say i would do a clean reinstall of my windows 10 computer. If i start it up.. then install my hard drive from the external... i know there is a way where it copies the backup image so it looks exactly same like your laptop did before it... thus desktop icons and everything... would i still have the same hem2 database such as results and xxx hands on the players on my database? So this backup of hem2 is different from the image copy using AOMEI and macrium right? Because a while back when i had to get a new computer, i did not back anything up. So on new computer, i had to install hem2 and do all the configurations again for every site and everything. Then of course when you start it... i have no hand histories or hud or anything on anything etc.
HM2 backups behave like an image backup but they are technically different. It backs up your database and settings that HM2/PSQL can restore to a new machine/install. You can also backup everything manually which I recommend, and which is more important IMO because sometimes backups or restoring backups can fail then your only options is recreating the DB from the original hands and manually copy/paste of the settings.
Please see this FAQ to transfer/backup data -
http://hm2faq.holdemmanager.com/ques...dem+Manager%3F
This will ensure that you have your hand histories and HUD saved to import into a new computer, and as a backup to restore in case of an emergency. I recommend you do this at least once a month and keep the last 2 or 3 most recent backups (and your \HM2Archive folder) stored on an external drive and/or cloud storage site like dropbox or google drive.
Fozzy71
Customer Support