Hey all, I backup metadata for 6 schemas a few times per day in our Dev DB on AIX 5.3 using DP export to a directory on disk: time expdp / \ content=metadata_only \ exclude=statistics,grant \ schemas=SCH1,SCH2,SCH3,SCH4,SCH5,SCH6 (non-important parameters not shown) In 10.1.0.5, this took 4 minutes. After upgrading to 11.2.0.3, it's taking more than 20 minutes on the same hardware/OS. The logs are very similar in content. This concerns me because I have another DP job that runs over a DB link that pulls data instead of metadata and orders of magnitude more of it. I'm wondering now if it'll take 15 hours instead of 3 for that. I'd check MOS, but it's in an unscheduled outage right now. Thoughts anyone? My kneejerk is stats, but where? Dictionary? Schema? Rich -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l