Re: Determine dump file size

Thanks all who replied.

I was able to see the total estimated size using expdp in a small database,
but it was hanging for over an hour for a DB of size ~200G. I had to kill
it. Jared's script helped too.


On 1/17/08, Tony Sequeira <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 13:27 -0600, Ram Raman wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a way to determine the dump file size before the export
> > starts? I plan to do a full export of a database. ver 10.2.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> What I used to do back in the days of Oracle7. Unix or Unix tools
> required.
>
> Create a "named pipe" (mknod), pipe an export to this file, and wc -c
> the result.
>
> Have a google search.
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