DaPi,

Has anyone ever told you that you have a very large brain.

I can't think of the reason we're doing an export of the rman catalog, but I think it was something like portability or how to restore the catalog if you don't have the catalog in a dr situation, or something .. it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Get this, I had an exp of a 42gig database that took hours to export and 17 DAYS to import (clobs)... long story, but it had to be export/imported.