That's very poor compression. I hope it's a typo in the docs! Anyone messed with this yet??? Rich > Check out section 1.3.1 at > http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28279/chapter1.htm#FEATURENO06982 > > " > Data Pump provides the ability to compress the metadata of a dump file set, > which can shrink the dump files by 10-15%. > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l