Has anybody revoked execute privilege from public for SYS.DBMS_EXPORT_EXTENSION. If yes, then it should be granted to exporting user including system. Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 16:09:51 +0530 Subject: Export Backup Failure From: nagaraj.chk@xxxxxxxxx To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Hello, Export backup faling with below error. Kindly help here. Export: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Wed May 11 00:00:54 2011 Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options EXP-00056: ORACLE error 68 encountered ORA-00068: invalid value 1000000 for parameter sort_area_size, must be between 7801677937 and 3819475968 ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_EXPORT_EXTENSION", line 720 ORA-06512: at line 1 EXP-00056: ORACLE error 68 encountered ORA-00068: invalid value 1000000 for parameter sort_area_size, must be between 7801677937 and 3819475968 ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_EXPORT_EXTENSION", line 720 ORA-06512: at line 1 EXP-00000: Export terminated unsuccessfully -Nagaraj