> I did not tie it to a specific error. When I found I could > not export I > started looking up the error messages I was receiving and > found some notes > related to export. Dennis, this is both good and bad news to me. I am taking care of 60 or so development 9.2.0.1 instances and instead of 'proper' approach (too long/ugly a story) I use daily export + gzip as main/one and only backup 'strategy'. When I saw comment on your 9.2's export woes, it got me really worried, but now that I can not point to a specific bug# (although relieved to a point) I loose any hope to push company wide upgrade to latest patch set. Unless I can point to 'smoking gun' I can not pull this upgrade/patch trick. Small place where I work, but way too much politics, overblown-out-of-place ego road blocks and other unrelated internal limitations... Nevertheless, thanks for pointer and comments. Branimir ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------