Did you specify the dump file name with the mandatory %U? It's not in the mail afaik. Frits Hoogland http://fritshoogland.wordpress.com frits.hoogland@xxxxxxxxx +31 6 53569942 (Sent from my iPhone, typo's are expected) Op 9 mrt. 2013 om 15:48 heeft Keith Moore <kmoore@xxxxxxxxxxxx> het volgende geschreven: > Hopefully someone has run into a similar issue and can help me out. > > We are doing a large datapump export to save as a historical archive. The > database is 10.2.0.4. Since this version of expdp will not compress and not > allow compressing to a named pipe, we used the following parameters: > > PARALLEL=8 > FILESIZE=10GB > EXCLUDE=TRIGGER > COMPRESSION=METADATA_ONLY > METRICS=Y > FULL=Y > FLASHBACK_TIME="TO_TIMESTAMP('09-03-2013 06:00:00', 'DD-MM-YYYY HH24:MI:SS')" > > Space is tight so the plan was to compress the files after they reached their > 10GB limit. We did that and at a later time, expdp tried to access one of them > again. > > At what point in time can we guarantee that the export process will not try to > access the file again? > > Below is the error we received. > > Thanks > Keith > > ORA-31693: Table data object "PWRLINE"."SETTLESHADOWNIDR" failed to > load/unload and is being skipped due to error: > > ORA-31617: unable to open dump file > "/DB_EXPORT/expdp_LDSTPRD_2013-03-09_06:00:00_06.dmp" for write > > ORA-19505: failed to identify file > "/DB_EXPORT/expdp_LDSTPRD_2013-03-09_06:00:00_06.dmp" > > ORA-17503: ksfdopn:4 Failed to open file > /DB_EXPORT/expdp_LDSTPRD_2013-03-09_06:00:00_06.dmp > > ORA-17500: ODM err:File does not exist > > ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 3 > > ORA-08180: no snapshot > > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l