Re: Determine dump file size

From: Tony Sequeira <tony_at_sequeira.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:36:25 +0000
Message-Id: <1200605785.18208.2.camel@comet.sequestor.lan>


On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 13:27 -0600, Ram Raman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to determine the dump file size before the export
> starts? I plan to do a full export of a database. ver 10.2.
>
> Thanks.

What I used to do back in the days of Oracle7. Unix or Unix tools required.

Create a "named pipe" (mknod), pipe an export to this file, and wc -c the result.

Have a google search.

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