My hunch is that the export is not causing the error. Rather, other transactions are changing the data, and when the export process tries to reconstruct the state of the data when the export started, the old data is no longer available in the rollback segments. Assuming this is the case, assigning the export process to a larger rollback segment will have no effect. If you were on 9i, you could use automatic undo management to greatly simplify the problem. If you are stuck with manual undo management via rollback segments, you will have to figure out why the rollback information isn't available when your query needs it. It may be that you have very small rollback segments that wrap too frequently, so increasing the size of the rollback segments will help. It may be that you need to increase the optimal size of your rollback segments. It may be that you need more rollback segments. So many possibilities :-( If possible, can you run export when the database is less busy? Are you specifying that the export should be consistent on the command line? Do you actually need a consistent export? Justin Cave Distributed Database Consulting, Inc. http://www.ddbcinc.com/askDDBC -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Computer Centre - NIIPL Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 2:27 AM To: ORALCE LIST Subject: (no subject) Dear All, We are getting the following error during database export. ORA-1555 :- snapshot too old. How to assign a big RBS to the export session. Thanks in Advance, Balu, Oracle DBA This mail is scaned by eScan Anti Virus Software ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------