EXPDP - How To avoid Estimation

Hi,
I am at present running exp and we recently upgraded to 10g v2.We thought of going with expdp.Since we have almost 50,000 tables for that schema,the estimation process(blocks & statistics) taking almost the time it took for completion of exp.

Is there any way to suppress estimation???.I tried estimate_only=n and it didnt work???.Any suggestions.

Use regular export instead of expdb. ;)


But export backup is useless unless you actually know which tables you would have to recover from the 50,000.

Better just backup with rman. :rolleyes: