PDB Backups Size 0 (Doc ID 2872699.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 21, 2023

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Goal

This document is to show how to correct the issue when the PDB backup export file reportss a zero file size


PDB dumps are breaking with size 0 and without .txt file

[epapdev@epap-a ~]$ cd /var/TKLC/epap/free/pdbi_export
[epapdev@epap-a pdbi_export]$ ls -ltr
total 7184876
-rw-r--r-- 1 epapdev epap 0 May 5 07:10 pdbauto_20220505.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 epapdev epap 1568229888 May 6 06:55 pdbauto_20220506.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 epapdev epap 228409213 May 6 07:11 pdbauto_20220506.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 epapdev epap 1268769792 May 7 06:55 pdbauto_20220507.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 epapdev epap 184546011 May 7 07:11 pdbauto_20220507.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 epapdev epap 1984556384 May 8 06:53 pdbauto_20220508.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 epapdev epap 284084031 May 8 07:11 pdbauto_20220508.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 epapdev epap 1605062656 May 9 06:55 pdbauto_20220509.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 epapdev epap 233619941 May 9 07:11 pdbauto_20220509.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 epapdev epap 0 May 10 07:10 pdbauto_20220510.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 epapdev epap 0 May 11 07:10 pdbauto_20220511.gz
[epapdev@epap-a pdbi_export]$

Solution

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