Greetings, I suspect, although it is only a suspicion, that the time stamp on the file must be > 24:00:00 hours prior to the time you run the find. For example, you run the find at 22:00 then start your export. The export finishes at 22:30. Then the next day you run your find at 22:00. The previous days dump file has a time stamp of 22:30, not yet 24 hours old so it isn't deleted then you get today's dump file thus 2 files. I think. Bill Wagman Univ. of California at Davis IET Campus Data Center wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx (530) 754-6208 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of J. Dex Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 7:51 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: How keep only one copy .dmp? How can I set my script to only keep one copy of a dump file? On Linux, I have the following line in the script (which is run nightly by cron). Yet I always seem to end up with 2 days worth of dmp files which are using up too much space. I only want for there to be one copy that stays on the server. find $DMPDIR -name "*" -mtime +0 -exec rm {} \; Rest of script that follows that line: DT=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M` gzip < $EXPPIPE > $DMPDIR/${ORACLE_SID}_full.dmp.${DT}.gz & $ORACLE_HOME/bin/exp system/$exppass full=y file=$EXPPIPE log=$DMPDIR/${ORACLE_SID}_full_1db_exp_${DT}.log consistent=y compress=y #Check log for errors below cd $DMPDIR grep -c "EXP-" ${ORACLE_SID}_full_1db_exp_${DT}.log > /dev/null if [ $? = 0 ] then echo "failed export" | mail -s "export of $ORACLE_SID FAILED CHECK LOG FOR DETAILS" `cat $MAIL/dba` exit 1 fi exit _________________________________________________________________ Don't get caught with egg on your face. Play Chicktionary! http://club.live.com/chicktionary.aspx?icid=chick_hotmailtextlink2 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l