200G is a mighty large export. Any idea how long the import will take? On Jan 18, 2008 12:13 PM, Ram Raman <veeeraman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > > -- > > S. Anthony Sequeira > > ++ > > Smear the road with a runner!! > > ++ > > > > -- > > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > > > > > -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist