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EXPDP Fails Inconsistently With ORA-39095 When Combining With Compression Tools In Scheduled OS script (Doc ID 1665905.1)

Last updated on APRIL 03, 2020

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.2.0.5 to 12.1.0.1 [Release 10.2 to 12.1]
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
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Symptoms

Using a script (batch or shell script ) to perform a DataPump export and to compress the dmp files using some compress tools (zip, gzip ... other), the export fails like:

Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/TABLE/STATISTICS/TABLE_STATISTICS
ORA-39095: Dump file space has been exhausted: Unable to allocate 4096 bytes
Job "XXX"."XXX_EXPORT" stopped due to fatal error at 06:28:15

Changes

 There are no change. This is a random issue, happening only sometimes while the expdp script finishes successfully other times.

Cause

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