STATUS parameter in datapump

STATUS:

Specifies the frequency at which the job status display is updated.

If you supply a value for integer, it specifies how frequently, in seconds, job status should be displayed in logging mode.

DEMO:

SQL> host expdp system/sys dumpfile=EasdXPgjhDAT.dmp directory=ipump full=y status=10

Export: Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production on Sat Sep 24 12:13:07 2011

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Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production

With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options

Job: SYS_EXPORT_FULL_05

  Operation: EXPORT

  Mode: FULL

  State: EXECUTING

  Bytes Processed: 0

  Current Parallelism: 1

  Job Error Count: 0

  Dump File: D:\EASDXPGJHDAT.DMP

    bytes written: 4,096

Worker 1 Status:

  State: UNDEFINED

Starting "SYSTEM"."SYS_EXPORT_FULL_05":  system/******** dumpfile=EasdXPgjhDAT.dmp directory=ipump full=y status=10

Job: SYS_EXPORT_FULL_05

  Operation: EXPORT

  Mode: FULL

  State: EXECUTING

  Bytes Processed: 0

  Current Parallelism: 1

  Job Error Count: 0

  Dump File: D:\EASDXPGJHDAT.DMP

    bytes written: 4,096

Worker 1 Status:

  Process Name: DW00

  State: EXECUTING

Estimate in progress using BLOCKS method...

Job: SYS_EXPORT_FULL_05

  Operation: EXPORT

  Mode: FULL

  State: EXECUTING

  Bytes Processed: 0

  Current Parallelism: 1

  Job Error Count: 0

  Dump File: D:\EASDXPGJHDAT.DMP

    bytes written: 4,096

Worker 1 Status:

  Process Name: DW00

  State: EXECUTING

Processing object type DATABASE_EXPORT/SCHEMA/TABLE/TABLE_DATA

Job: SYS_EXPORT_FULL_05

....

Enjoy:-)