Hey Scott, What was in the .aud file? Each object imported/exported, or rows, or what? Do you have AUDIT statement(s) set? And what do you have the init.ora param AUDIT_TRAIL set to? Just curious... Thx! Rich -----Original Message----- Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 10:45 AM Subject: Re: Full database export as user ' / as sysdba' I can think of one: If you implement audit_sys_operations=TRUE in 9i (per security requirements, etc), you can end up with some _HUGE_ .aud files. Had this one bite us when we upgraded to 9.2.0.5. --Scott -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l